acquisition, conservation, curation, material studies, museum studies, history of medicine
The bottomless pit of confusion that is the biomedical material heritage
National Museum of Health and Medicine’s Mike Rhode (’A Repository for Bottled Monsters’) writes in a comment to Søren’s post the other day that he ”feels good about” the fact that our storage problems “amazingly enough, appears worse” than theirs. I’m glad he says “amazingly enough” :-).
Thus, medical museums-in-arms we are, struggling to glean nuggets from the bottomless pit of confusion that is the biomedical material heritage (today’s favourite expression, paraphrased from Theresa Atwood, in turn borrowed from a manuscript by Susanne).
28 Aug 2008 Thomas
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Yes, there’s a staggering flow of obsolete equipment rolling in. I also am overwhelmed by institutional records and patient records. And forget about electronic records…