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Artist interviews – new art for

WebOpened in November 2019, Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries showcases four major new art commissions at the Science Museum, London. This article brings artistic and …

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The valuable role of risky histories: exhibiting disability, race and

WebThe changing representation of disability, race and mental health in European medical museums and the under-representation of reproduction; ‘risks’ involved in exhibiting …

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Curating Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries

WebThe curators of Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries reflect on their experiences of creating these significant new displays at the Science Museum in London.

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‘Great ease and simplicity of action’: Dr Nelson’s Inhaler and the

WebTinkering with nature: craft, domesticity and female labour in F Percy Smith’s ‘Data’ notebooks (1925–1944)

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Mind-Boggling Medical History

WebTinkering with nature: craft, domesticity and female labour in F Percy Smith’s ‘Data’ notebooks (1925–1944)

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Rather unspectacular: design choices in National Health Service …

WebTinkering with nature: craft, domesticity and female labour in F Percy Smith’s ‘Data’ notebooks (1925–1944)

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Thinking things through: reviving museum research

WebThis experientially varied version of museum thinking will for many recall Howard Gardner’s breakthrough insights into our ‘multiple intelligences’, which added synthetic, creative, …

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Misbehaving Bodies

WebThe essay explores the curation of Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, an exhibition at Wellcome Collection. Bringing together two artists who explore illness …

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Embedding plurality: exploring participatory practice in the

WebTinkering with nature: craft, domesticity and female labour in F Percy Smith’s ‘Data’ notebooks (1925–1944)

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The provenance and context of the Giustiniani Medicine Chest

WebThe item’s provenance, which Rossi relates in one of his letters to Thompson, identifies the chest as originally ‘with no doubt’, being in the ownership of Vincenzo or …

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A history of amulets in ten objects

WebA highly prevalent date range for amulets in the Science Museum collection is around 1870–1930, encompassing the lives of Wellcome, Lovett, and other prominent …

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A statistical campaign: Florence Nightingale and Harriet Martineau’s

WebTinkering with nature: craft, domesticity and female labour in F Percy Smith’s ‘Data’ notebooks (1925–1944)

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Challenges of conservation: working objects

WebTinkering with nature: craft, domesticity and female labour in F Percy Smith’s ‘Data’ notebooks (1925–1944)

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Inventor, devoted daughter, or lover

WebThis article is about the Victorian naval engineer Henrietta Vansittart (1833–1883), who held patents for the Lowe-Vansittart propeller. She is a rare example of a woman practising in …

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‘Your body is full of wounds’: references, social contexts and uses …

WebThe wounds of Christ was an immensely popular motif in Late Medieval Europe. This collaborative essay discusses three different instances where the iconography is adapted …

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A museum by the people for the people

WebKeywords. Activist Museums, Community Engagement, Exhibition review, museology, National museum, Social Engagement, Socially Engaged Practices, St Fagans, Wales

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