scholarly journals Fredrik Svanberg. Människosamlarna. Anatomiska museer och rasvetenskap i Sverige ca 1850–1950

1970 ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Eva Åhrén
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Swedish History

The publication of Fredrik Svanberg’s Människosamlarna. Anatomiska museer och rasvetenskap i Sverige ca 1850–1950 [The Collectors of Human Beings. Anatomical Museums and Racial Science in Sweden c. 1850–1950] is very timely. The topic of human remains in museum collections has recently been under debate in Swedish media Early in 2015, the debate was triggered by the efforts of Karolinska Institutet’s Unit for Medical History and Heritage to research its neglected historic collections of human remains, and start repatriating racialized skulls to indigenous source communities. (Disclosure: I am the director of that unit, and my own research on the history of medical museums is referenced in this book.) Svanberg, who is head of research at the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm, wrote an important contribution to the media debate. The old skull collections that still exist in Lund, Uppsala and Stockholm, he pointed out, have been “rediscovered” by the media at intervals of 5–7 years since the 1980s (cf. pp. 20–26). Media attention tends to cause a brief uproar, until the crania are quickly forgotten again – until the next time. Swedes don’t seem to retain past understandings and constructions of race, or how these conceptions contributed to the creation of our modern, neutral and ostensibly non-racist welfare state.

scholarly journals Exhibitions

Museum Worlds ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-157
Author(s):  
Sharon Ann Holt ◽  
Sophie Kazan ◽  
Gloriana Amador ◽  
Joanna Cobley ◽  
Blaire M. Moskowitz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
African American History ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
San Jose ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Swedish History

Exhibition Review EssaysThe National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.After Darkness: Social Impact and Art InstitutionsExhibition ReviewsBehind the Red Door: A Vision of the Erotic in Costa Rican Art, The Museum of Costa Rican Art, San José“A Positive Future in Classical Antiquities”: Teece Museum, University of Canterbury, ChristchurchHeavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkAnche le Statue Muoiono: Conflitto e Patrimonio tra Antico e Contemporaneo, Museo Egizio, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Musei Reali, TurinRethinking Human Remains in Museum Collections: Curating Heads at UCLRitratti di Famiglia, the Archaeological Museum, Bologna100% Fight – The History of Sweden, the Swedish History Museum, Stockholm

scholarly journals History of the publishing activity of the State Natural History Museum of the NAS of Ukraine

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
O. Klymyshyn
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The State ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Publishing Activity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Collections

The publishing activity of the museum for the whole period of its existence is analyzed, starting from the first published in the museum by V. Didushitsky in 1880 and up to 2018 inclusive. Approximately this work is about 3.5 thousand publications, among which 84 monographs; 35 issues of the scientific miscellany "Proceedings of the State Natural History Museum"; 5 issues of the book series "Scientific Collections of the State Natural History Museum"; more than 50 catalogs of museum collections, thematic miscellanies, qualifiers, dictionaries and guides; about 2.2 thousand scientific articles; about 1 thousand materials and abstracts of reports of scientific conferences, as well as dozens of popular scientific articles, brochures and booklets.

scholarly journals The FEMENist Connection: Ruptures and Agency in FEMEN France

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1,2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marine Gheno
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Girl Power ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Representations Of Women

FEMEN embodies many ambiguities as a feminist group using its members' bare breasts to inscribe messages and attract media attention. Now settled in France, a context wherein the women’s movement has a long history of activism and theory, these ambiguities are particularly visible through strong criticism from feminist figures. In this article, I argue that FEMEN actions are both beneficial and detrimental to feminism as they present the media with eroticized militant women while empowering such representations of women. In the vein of popfeminism and girl power media culture, FEMEN contributes to a transformation of contemporary feminist activism in continuity with feminist claims to agency, and in rupture with feminist criticisms of neoliberal commodification of women. 

scholarly journals Egypt’s dispersed heritage: Multi-directional storytelling through comic art

2021 ◽  
pp. 146960532199292
Author(s):  
Heba Abd el-Gawad ◽  
Alice Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Egyptian Archaeology ◽  
Traditional Storytelling

This paper responds to a need to address the colonial history of collections of Egyptian archaeology and to find new ways in which Egyptian audiences can assume greater agency in such a process. The ‘Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage’ project presents a model of engagement whereby foreign museum collections become the inspiration for Egyptians to express their own feelings about the removal of their heritage abroad using idioms and traditional storytelling of cultural relevance to them. A series of online comics confronting contentious heritage issues, including the display of mummified human remains, eugenics, looting and destruction, is discussed. It is argued that this approach is not only more relatable for Egyptian communities, but moreover provides space for the development of grass-roots critique of heritage practices, both in the UK and in Egypt. Museums have a responsibility to take on board these critiques, curating not just objects but relationships forged amongst them in historical and contemporary society.

scholarly journals Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze – Le collezioni botaniche

2009 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Still Life ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Botanical Collection ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Florence ◽  
The University

The Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand-Duke Pietro Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. With this second volume on the Botanical Collection, Florence University Press continues its series dedicated to the six Sections of the Museum. The first part of the volume recounts the birth of botanical sciences in Florence and the history of the museum collections from sixteenth century to today. Then follows the second part which describes the historical and modern Herbaria, for each of which the main events that went to their formation, the importance of the plants they contain and biographical information on those who built the collections are described. The third section expounds the other collections in the Botanical Section of the Museum, among which of particular interest are the wax models of plants and fruits, manufactured by the old Grand-ducal Ceroplastics Laboratory, the wood collection, plaster of Paris mushrooms and the eighteenth century still life paintings of fruits and vegetables by Bartolomeo Bimbi. Finally, the last part illustrates the importance that herbaria play today in modern scientific research, drawing attention to the fact that they are an archive that holds taxonomical, chorological and ecological information in function of the plants they contain, as well as historical-biographical information on the scholars who, through their efforts, built up the collections.

scholarly journals ‘If the rise of the TikTok dance and e-girl aesthetic has taught us anything, it’s that teenage girls rule the internet right now’: TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1069-1076
Author(s):  
Melanie Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Young Female ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cultural Visibility ◽  
Short Essay

During the global lockdowns brought about by the Coronavirus crisis, TikTok saw a phenomenal rise in users and cultural visibility. This short essay argues that the media attention paid to TikTok during this time can be read as a celebration of girlhood in the face of the pandemic, and can be seen to contribute to the transformation of girls’ ‘bedroom culture’ (McRobbie and Garber, 2006) from a space previously conceptualised as private and safe from judgement, to one of public visibility, surveillance and evaluation. Focusing on Charli D’Amelio, this essay argues that the increasing visibility of TikTok and rising celebrity of D’Amelio during the Coronavirus crisis continues and intensifies the longer history of young female celebrity culture, and obscures the dangers and impacts faced by girls around the world who are situated outside of the ideals embodied in TikTok stars like D’Amelio.

Paper trails: History of the first Australian paper on ether anaesthesia

2020 ◽  
pp. 0310057X2097749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajesh P Haridas
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Medical Society ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Ether Anaesthesia ◽  
Original Manuscript ◽  
History Of

In September 1847, David John Thomas read a paper on etherisation at a monthly meeting of the Port Phillip Medical Association. Thomas’ paper is the earliest known presentation of a paper on etherisation in the Australian colonies. Almost half of Thomas’ 27-page manuscript was published in October 1847 in the Australian Medical Journal. The original manuscript was acquired at an unknown date by the Medical Society of Victoria. Although a full transcript of the manuscript was published in 1933, the original manuscript of Dr Thomas remained unknown to anaesthesia historians and is now held by the Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne.

scholarly journals MANAGING THE COLLECTIONS OF THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW VERSUS THE EXPERIENCE OF THE HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA

Muzealnictwo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 163-173
Author(s):  
Adam Tyszkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Medical History ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
Humboldt University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Medical University ◽  
The 19Th Century

The Medical History Museum founded in 2011 within the structure of the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM), following the solutions introduced at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Vienna, is planning to shortly introduce coordination of protection and display of the historic tangible heritage of the school. In both Berlin and Vienna in the early 21st century the project of university collection inventory was launched. Just over several years it yielded a large-scale digitizing process, foundation of theme websites, publications, and organization of temporary exhibitions promoting the historic university collections. The Association of University Museums established in Poland in 2014 has for several years been drawing inspiration from the German and Austrian models. The WUM Medical History Museum, resorting to the experience of the Berlin and Vienna universities, has applied numerous ideas for the integration of the historic collections, their identification, and recreation. Following the history of medical collections in Warsaw from the 1st half of the 19th century up to contemporary times, the Author analyses the model for this museum strategy, while also presenting examples of dangers resulting from the mismanagement of university historic heritage.

scholarly journals THE EXPERIENCE OF NON-STATE MEDICAL-TECHNOLOGICAL AND LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUMS' COLLECTION CREATION ON THE TERRITORY OF SANATORIUM "AVANGARD" IN NEMYRIV CITY, VINNITSYA REGION

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Gladkey ◽  
Volodymyr Kilivnuk
Keyword(s):  
Local History ◽  
Medical Rehabilitation ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
History Museums ◽  
History Of

Goal of the article consist in analyzing and systematizing of experience in creating a non-governmental medical-technological and local history museum collection on the territory of SE "Clinical Sanatorium "Avangard" located in Nemyriv city, Vinnytsia region. Method. The methodological basis of this study is a general scientific dialectical method. The main research methods are: the method of literary, illustrative, descriptive, analytical and scientific synthesis. Results. Local history, technical-technological, medical-rehabilitation and sanatorium-medical aspects of creation a non-governmental medical-technological and local history museum collection on the territory of SE "Clinical Sanatorium "Avangard" located in Nemyriv city, Vinnytsia region are revealed. The key preconditions for the appearance of the museum collection have been identified. The funds of the museum collection, the history of their collection and the modern exposition are described in detail. The key organizational, legislative, economic, employee and managerial problems of the museum collection's existence have been identified. Practical significance. The experience of creating a non-governmental medical-technological and local history museum collection on the territory of SE "Clinical Sanatorium "Avangard" located in Nemyriv city, Vinnytsia region can be used in the practice of other sanatoriums of Ukraine as well as can be used for further organization of non-governmental museum collections with medical-technological and local history profile. Scientific novelty. The scientific novelty of this article consist in the attemption of the first comprehensive analysis in Ukraine of the advantages and disadvantages in organization of non-governmental museum collections in sanatoriums, rest homes and other medical and health facilities of general profile.

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