Comments on: Baltic-Nordic network for medical museums http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/11/10/baltic-nordic-network-for-medical-museums/ Medical Museion Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Thomas http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/11/10/baltic-nordic-network-for-medical-museums/comment-page-1/#comment-246631 Thomas Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:10:19 +0000 http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/11/10/baltic-nordic-network-for-medical-museums/#comment-246631 Thanks Jim, for these encouraging words. Joint sponsorships is a very good thing, which we might try on this side of the pond as well. Thanks Jim, for these encouraging words. Joint sponsorships is a very good thing, which we might try on this side of the pond as well.

]]> By: Jim Edmonson http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/11/10/baltic-nordic-network-for-medical-museums/comment-page-1/#comment-246630 Jim Edmonson Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:24:57 +0000 http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/11/10/baltic-nordic-network-for-medical-museums/#comment-246630 Congratulations on your spirit of collaboration and cooperation up north! Actually, I am jealous that our own Medical Museums Association in North America hasn't developed as it might. We limp along, meeting in the day before the AAHM each year (in Cleveland in April 2009). I look for good things to come from the leadership of MeMA President David Pantalony (Curator, Physical Sciences and Medicine Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottowa) and other "new blood" to be infused into our organization. Yet many medical museums and collections here are essentially understaffed, and often lack funds to send staff to professional meetings. Still, many of us are in regular contact, and freely share information and discuss issues of common concern. Just recently, for example, I had a long and fruitful conversation with Robert Hicks, new director of the Mutter (College of Physicians of Philadelphia), and we will be working in concert to share programming and initiatives, beginning with a joint sponsorship of bringing Simon Chaplin to speak at the Dittrick and the Mutter in March. Hopefully, our two institutions will make this an ongoing cooperation to bring museum colleagues from Europe and the UK to come stateside as visiting lecturers annually, building upon the Handerson Lecture that brought you to the Dittrick in 2005. Again, congrats on starting a good thing, and best wishes for its every success. You are fortunate in having Ray Kondratas being transplanted to Lithuania, too! My best regards, Jim Congratulations on your spirit of collaboration and cooperation up north! Actually, I am jealous that our own Medical Museums Association in North America hasn’t developed as it might. We limp along, meeting in the day before the AAHM each year (in Cleveland in April 2009). I look for good things to come from the leadership of MeMA President David Pantalony (Curator, Physical Sciences and Medicine Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottowa) and other “new blood” to be infused into our organization.

Yet many medical museums and collections here are essentially understaffed, and often lack funds to send staff to professional meetings. Still, many of us are in regular contact, and freely share information and discuss issues of common concern. Just recently, for example, I had a long and fruitful conversation with Robert Hicks, new director of the Mutter (College of Physicians of Philadelphia), and we will be working in concert to share programming and initiatives, beginning with a joint sponsorship of bringing Simon Chaplin to speak at the Dittrick and the Mutter in March. Hopefully, our two institutions will make this an ongoing cooperation to bring museum colleagues from Europe and the UK to come stateside as visiting lecturers annually, building upon the Handerson Lecture that brought you to the Dittrick in 2005.

Again, congrats on starting a good thing, and best wishes for its every success. You are fortunate in having Ray Kondratas being transplanted to Lithuania, too!

My best regards,

Jim

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