Fakes in the Whipple Museum Collection
Are there fakes scientific instruments hiding in our collections, and if so, how do we identify them? Dr Joshua Nall, Curator of Modern Sciences at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, introduces a research collaboration between the Whipple Museum and James Hyslop, Head of Department, Science & Natural History, Christie’s, London. The Whipple team included Nall, Professor Liba…
From the Museum of Zoology to our Garden
With their doors closed, staff at home and social distancing the new norm, how can and how are Museums continuing to play an active and relevant role in people’s lives? Sara Steele and Matt Hayes share their experience of developing and delivering a remote pilot session designed to engage the UCM’s Portals to the World participants; people with a dementia…
Campaign for Empathy x Arbury Carnival
Campaign for Empathy: A Message, 2020, Enni-Kukka Tuomala The “Campaign for Empathy: A Message” is a travelling audio artwork spreading messages of hope, joy, togetherness and empathy from the future generation, in their own voices and their own words. The “Campaign for Empathy: A Message” marked what would have been Arbury Carnival 2020, the popular local event which normally brings…
