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Bragg Day
Saturday 23rd March 2013 was Bragg day at the University of Leeds. In preparation for this day of activities and lectures we brought together academics with an interest in X-ray crystallography from across the University – from history of science, our … Continue reading
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Visit from the ‘Leeds City College (over 60s) Local History Group’
On 8th February 2013, Rita Berry from Leeds City College brought her local history group to visit our museum. They were a very nice group, all interested and well informed, and tolerant of the enormous amount of walking required on … Continue reading
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Endangered Specimens, Endangered Skills: Core Principles of Fluid Collection Conservation
On 5th February 2013, Mark and I, along with Pat Harkin (Associate Director of Student Support in the School of Medicine, University of Leeds), attended a three-day course at the Hunterian Museum, Royal Collections of Surgeons, London to learn how … Continue reading
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Handling collections
Museum Practice have this month been exploring the role of touch in museums, and the various ways in which handling collections can be developed and used. To promote the work of our museum in this area, Liz Stainforth and I … Continue reading
….creating results such as this. Next stage is colour…
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I’m a Fine Art student who has begun to work with some of the items in the Museum’s Store Room. The above images (hopefully… I have never written a blog before so I have no idea where the images will … Continue reading
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New & improved: science without heroes
Exhibitions evolve. Our draft outline, posted a few weeks ago was what we thought we’d show, but then we tried it in the space and it needed a little more. A few additions, some corrections, the odd tweak here and … Continue reading
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Material Culture in Chemistry conference
On Saturday 8th December 2012 I went along to this conference held at the Science Museum in London and organised by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry in an attempt to find out a little about the … Continue reading
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