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UNIVERSEUM Belgrade 2017

XVIII UNIVERSEUM NETWORK MEETING

Mobility of University Heritage

University of Belgrade, Serbia, 8-10 June 2017

Book of Abstracts

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XVIII UNIVERSEUM NETWORK MEETING

Mobility of University Heritage

University of Belgrade, Serbia

Book of Abstracts

Izdavač/Publisher

Univerzitet u Beogradu i Universeum-Evropska mreža akademskog nasleđa / University of

Belgrade and Universeum-European Academic Heritage Network

Za izdavača/On behalf of the publisher

Akademik/Academician Vladimir Bumbaširević

Redakcija/Editorial Board

Marlen Mouliou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Živoslav Lj. Tešić, University of Belgrade

Milan Popadić, University of Belgrade

Sébastien Soubiran, University of Strasbourg (France)

Sofi a Talas, University of Padua (Italy)

Bruno Vila, University of Aix-Marseille (France)

Roland Wittje, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India)

Urednik/Editor

Ivana Mitrović

Grafi čki dizajn /Graphic design

Anka Srećković

Štampa /Print

3D+, Beograd

Tiraž/Copies

150 primeraka/copies

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XVIII UNIVERSEUM NETWORK MEETINGMobility of University Heritage

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS

University of Belgrade, Serbia, 8-10 June 2017

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Contents

CONTENTS ...............................................................................................................................................................5

SPONSORS ................................................................................................................................................................9

COMMITTEES .......................................................................................................................................................10

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ...........................................................................................................10

THEMATIC SESSIONS .......................................................................................................................................11

WORKSHOP ...........................................................................................................................................................12

PROGRAM ..............................................................................................................................................................13

POSTERS .................................................................................................................................................................18

ABSTRACTS ...........................................................................................................................................................21

L. ZwislerProtecting the built environment without killing the idea ...................................................................23

B. JardineA ‘dark and sordid muddle’: Th e new museums site in Cambridge and the problem of lost and radically altered scientifi c buildings ..................................................................................................24

J. BurdgeTraditionalist architects at the University of St Andrews: an historical debate on the preservation of architectural heritage ......................................................................................................25

P. RainioHistorical values in danger? From historical interiors to modern multi-space offi ces ...................26

M. Devetaković, M. Radojević, A. CiganovićImplementation of BIM technology in documenting university heritage buildings .......................27

F. M. C. SantagatiA Monumental Complex in Catania with a New “University Role”: Problems and Prospects ........................................................................................................................................................28

E. Kitta, E. Papoulias, M. PichouA home to house a museum: history of the building .............................................................................29

O. EricMarko Stojanovic house as a university art museum ...........................................................................30

E. Corradini, E. EndrighiRe-arrange university collections in historical buildings to strengthen the identity of universities. New projects for the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia ...................................31

E. WeidenhammerA Crypt for big machines: Inhabiting a space where an accelerator was ..........................................32

R. D. RaatIn the Spirit of the Age: Human remains in the University Museum ................................................33

H. HooijmaijersWhat to show and what not ........................................................................................................................35

M. FredrikssonFor whom are we to store, if we do not strive to study. .........................................................................36

M. BukowskiHuman remains through the lens of a medical university museum ...................................................37

C. DucoureauHuman remains in the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier .................................................................38

N. CurtisWhat are human remains? ..........................................................................................................................39

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N. NystSkin, fl esh, skeletton, relics… Human remains: How does it work in Belgium (Wallonia-Brussels Federation)? ................................................................................................................40

J. Kozakaitė, R. JankauskasBioarchaeological human collection in the Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Lithuania .........................................................................................................................................................41

E. Lange, A. LefkaditouSkeletons in the closet ..................................................................................................................................42

F. Andry-CazinWhat future for the Dupuytren collections of anatomical pathology? ..............................................43

M. CampbellPerpetual Motion? Reconsidering the ‘Permanent Collection’ ...........................................................44

L. LeppikHeritage and inheritors. Mobility without moving ................................................................................45

M. MouliouSystems thinking and the mobility of university museum collections; tracing connecting threads .............................................................................................................................................................46

S. C. ScholtenMoving academic collections .....................................................................................................................47

J. Davoigneau, F. Le Guet TullyRadio antennas at Nançay Observatory: from intellectual and geographical mobility to musealisation ...........................................................................................................................................48

P. H. LambersCollection of the University Museum Utrecht on the move ................................................................49

J. RidleyJust like the real thing? Th e infl atable museum, outreach and authenticity .....................................50

Maciej KluzaTravelling exhibitions as a method of promotion of university scientifi c heritage .........................51

I. Mitrovic, D. MitrovicMobility to prevent, collect and integrate ................................................................................................52

G. VanpaemelMoving props, places and people. Challenges and opportunities for a decentralized university museum .......................................................................................................................................53

J. CaplanTh e Marseille Observatory collection — a case study of mobility ......................................................54

C. GutterTh e plaster cast collection of Strasbourg and its history ......................................................................55

J. M. P. PeñaTh e mobility of informative heritage of public higher education institutions through open access and patrimonialization ....................................................................................................................56

POSTERS ..................................................................................................................................................................57

S. R. Trifunović, I. D. Radojević, S.M. VasićTh e Cultural Heritage of the Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac .....................................59

J. J. SimićCollections and museums of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade: Past, present and future ...............................................................................................................................60

J. Manojlović, M. Mirić, D. KrajnovićPreventive protection of pharmaceutical cultural and historic heritage ...........................................61

A. TurajlićUniversity heritage in new media ..............................................................................................................62

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A. Zdravković, V. MatovićTh e importance of preserving the collection of rocks and minerals at the faculty of mining and geology ....................................................................................................................................................63

T. B. StanisavljevićDisplay of university heritage from the University library in Belgrade .............................................64

A. R. GardMoana, mobility and the making of meaning .........................................................................................65

Godoy, G. Marcelo, Weil G., Karin

Mobility of collections in araucanía chilena: Th e eff ects of working in network ............................66

E. Angelini, M. Bongiovanni, A. GoriGalileo @ Politecnico from the stars to applied sciences .....................................................................67

María Dolores Ruiz de Lacanal Ruiz-MateosUniversity heritage of the fi ne arts faculty of Seville .............................................................................68

V. Montenegro, A. GaruccioTh e Museum of Merceology of the University of Bari ..........................................................................69

S. HakkarainenSaving the agricultural collection of the University of Helsinki ..........................................................70

C. MarinA partecipatory approach to University collections: Th e proposal of “MU.VE.RE.-Musei (Scientifi ci) Veneti in rete” ..........................................................................................................................71

M. T. Alicia, I-H. PilarSpreading culture through the web 2.0. Th e example of the Jalón Ángel’s archive .........................72

R. Francescangeli, A. GaruccioTowards a perceptual integration of cataloging records .......................................................................73

Y. ReimersTh e Sudan Archaeological collection of the Humboldt-Universität Berlin and its East German heritage ...........................................................................................................................................................74

J. Lessing, L. JankeOrobates. Re_animated after 300 million years. An exhibition on modern university research ...........................................................................................................................................................75

C. BauerTh e Faculty of Science of Vandoeuvre-Lès-Nancy (Georges Tourry, Claude Goclowski and Edmond Lay architects, 1968-1971): What is the future for this organic architecture? ..................................................................................................................................................76

A. D. FotopoulosA common approach to managing preservation of academic heritage in Greece ..........................77

D. Paradiso, A. Garuccio, R. Francescangeli A handbook for schools’ scientifi c collections ........................................................................................78

S. Vallmitjana, A. Marzoa, S. García, P. Mateos, O. Silvestre Polarimeters of the Faculty of physics of the University of Barcelona ...............................................79

P. LazosTh e Collection of scientifi c instruments in the Phanar Greek Orthodox college in Istanbul. .....................................................................................................................................................81

E. WeidenhammerNetworks and exchange at a Canadian research university .................................................................82

Special presentation by Paolo Ferri and Pegram Harrison on the behalf of Oxford-Bologna consortium ( OxBo) ............83

Institutional and organisational issues of the University of Bologna Museums: state of the art and proposal for change ..............................................................................................................................86

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SPONSORS

Universeum - European Academic Heritage Network

Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia

Република СрбијаМИНИСТАРСТВО ПРОСВЕТЕ

НАУКЕ И ТЕХНОЛОШКОГ РАЗВОЈА

Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia

Република СрбијаМИНИСТАРСТВО КУЛТУРЕИ ИНФОРМИСАЊА

Banca Intesa

BeoExpo System

Turistička organizacija Beograda

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COMMITTEES

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marlen Mouliou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Živoslav Lj. Tešić, University of Belgrade

Milan Popadić, University of Belgrade

Sébastien Soubiran, University of Strasbourg (France)

Sofi a Talas, University of Padua (Italy)

Bruno Vila, University of Aix-Marseille (France)

Roland Wittje, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India)

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chair

Darko Mitrović, University of Belgrade

Members:

Ivana Mitrović, University of Belgrade

Alena Zdravković, University of Belgrade

Živan Lazović, University of Belgrade

Ana Jakovljević, University of Belgrade

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THEMATIC SESSIONS

1.THEMATIC SESSION on Mobility of University Heritage

Oral 15-min papers followed by 5 min discussion

In Europe, where people and goods move more or less freely, the mobility of museum collections

has been researched and promoted over the past decade. Mobility of collections demands

implementation of diff erent practices, such as mobility of exhibitions, loan policies, ethical and

legal issues, collection information management and dissemination. But can we speak in the

same terms and identify similar practices when referring to academic heritage and its mobility?

What does the musealisation of a university’s material and immaterial culture entail? How do

universities move collections in their everyday operation?

Th is is one way of understanding mobility. Th e sessions will focus on mobility in the broadest

sense, i.e. also in terms of dynamical displays, changing spaces, as well as on the dynamics of

changing interdisciplinary approaches to academic heritage interpretation and presentation.

We welcome in-depth papers that will help us to exchange experiences and identify current

good practices and case-studies, in order to discuss present and arising challenges related to the

mobility of university heritage in Europe now and in the years to come.

2. THEMATIC IN-DEPTH SPECIAL SESSION on Architectural Heritage, Recent

Buildings and Large Installations

Oral 5-min papers, followed by in-depth debate

What happens to the built university environment when objects, collections and people move

on? Th e buildings of a university constitute an important part of its academic heritage while

the protection and promotion of architecture is often treated separately from the protection

and promotion of its collections and archives. With laboratory science and big installations,

buildings have become increasingly inseparable from the instrumentation they house, which

has been the case for astronomical observatories since antiquity. What about historical

artistically valuable buildings that are currently used by universities for research, teaching or

administrative activities? What part of their architectural heritage should universities preserve?

How can universities manage and promote their architectural heritage?

Th is session aims at collecting short and precise arguments and to launch an in-depth discussion

on these various questions.

3. THEMATIC IN-DEPTH SPECIAL SESSION on Human remains in university collections

Oral 5-min papers, followed by in-depth debate

From anatomy to archaeology and anthropology, university collections are full of human

remains, which were collected, prepared, and preserved as part of research and teaching

activities. Th e management of these collections is a delicate issue. How to deal with collections

of skulls, mummifi ed bodies or body parts, samples of human remains, how to preserve them,

present them to public and transmit them to future generations?

Th is session aims to debate the main issues, some possible solutions and ethical approaches that

are currently developed in relation with human remains collections in European universities.

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4. POSTER SESSION

We invite presentations of scientifi c programs, technical issues of and around collections such

as storage, preservation and documentation, as well as descriptions of museums, collections

and other heritage. Presentations of cultural projects and questions related to the promotion of

university heritage are also welcome.

This year, as a special topic for Universeum 2017 Poster Session, we encourage the presentation

of posters on Preventive Conservation and Disaster Planning for university heritage (policies,

technical issues, etc).

WORKSHOP

Th e Working Group Digital Initiatives aims to help bring academic heritage collections online

and achieve good data quality and good data tools. We invite presentations of current projects,

websites or digital collections and we invite participants to share experiences, solutions and

lessons learned. What good practice can we derive from your experience? What should (or

shouldn’t) we do, and how should we do it? Hopefully these discussions will help us to develop

with you together, in Belgrade and further on guidelines for digitisation of academic heritage

and making it available on the web: What standards should we use? What infrastructures and

resources do we need? How do we acquire technical expertise? What kind of visibility and

usability should we aim at? What is good data quality? How can we exchange and aggregate

data?

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Program

08.06.2017, Th ursday

Rectorate Building of the University of Belgrade

08.00 - 09.30 Registration and coff ee

09.30 - 10.00 Conference opening, welcoming and introductory speeches

10.00 - 12.00 In-Depth Special Session “Architectural Heritage, Recent Buildings and

Large Installations”

Chair: Roland Wittje

10.00 - 10.30

Laila Zwisler, Technical University of Denmark, Protecting the built environment

without killing the idea

Boris Jardine, University of Cambridge, A “Dark and sordid muddle”: Th e new

museums site in Cambridge and the problem of lost and radically altered scientifi c

buildings

Jessica Burdge, University of St Andrews, Traditionalist architects at the University of

St Andrews: an historical debate on the preservation of architectural heritage

Päivi Rainio, University of Helsinki, Historical values in danger? From historical

interiors to modern multi-space offi ces

M. Devetaković, M. Radojević, A. Ciganović, University of Belgrade, Implementation

of BIM technology in documenting university heritage buildings

10.30 - 11.00 Discussion

11.00 - 11.30

Federica Santagati, University of Catania, A Monumental Complex in Catania with a

New “University Role”: Problems and Prospects

Elena Kitta, Evangelos Papoulias, Myrsini Pichou, National and Kapodistrian

University of Athens, A home to house a museum: history of the building

Olivera Eric, University of Arts in Belgrade, Marko Stojanovic house as a university

art museum

E. Corradini, E. Endrighi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Re-arrange

university collections in historical buildings to strengthen the identity of universities.

New projects for the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Eric Weidenhammer, University of Toronto, A crypt for big machines: Inhabiting a

space where an accelerator was


12.00 - 14.00 Lunch and guided Kalemegdan tour

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14.00 - 16.00 In-Depth Special Session “Human remains in university collections” Chair: Marlen Mouliou14.00 - 14.30

Reina De Raat, Utrecht University, In the Spirit of the Age: Human remains in the

University Museum

Hans Hooijmaijers, Museum Boerhaave (Dutch National Museum for the History of

Science and Medicine), What to show and what not

Matilda Fredriksson, Uppsala University, For whom are we to store, if we do not strive

to study

Marek Bukowski, Medical University of Gdańsk, Human remains through the lens of

a medical university museum

Caroline Ducoureau, University of Montpellier, Human remains in the Faculty of

Medicine of Montpellier


15.00 - 15.30

Neil Curtis, University of Aberdeen, What are human remains?

Nathalie Nyst, Free University of Brussels, Skin, fl esh, skeleton, relics… Human

remains: how does it work in Belgium (Wallonia-Brussels Federation)

J. Kozakaitė, R. Jankauskas, Vilnius University, Bioarchaeological human collection

in the Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Lithuania

Ellen Lange, Ageliki Lefkaditou, Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology,

Skeletons in the closet

Frédérique Andry-Cazin, University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, What future for

the Dupuytren collections of anatomical pathology?


16.00 - 16.30 Coff ee break

16.30 - 18.00 Poster session

Chair : Sébastien Soubiran

Srećko R. Trifunović, Ivana D. Radojević, Sava M. Vasić , University of Kragujevac,

Cultural heritage-Faculty of Science of the University of Kragujevac

Jelena Jovanović Simić, Museum of Science and Technology-University of Belgrade,

Collections and Museums of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade: past,

present and future

Jelena Manojlović, Milica Mirić, Dušanka Krajnović, University of Belgrade,

Preventive protection of pharmaceutical cultural and historic heritage

Adrijana Turajlić, University of Arts in Belgrade, University heritage in media

Alena Zdravković, Vesna Matović, University of Belgrade, Th e importance of

preserving the collection of rock and minerals at the faculty of mining and geology

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Tatjana Brzulović Stanisavljević, University of Belgrade, Display of university

heritage from the University library in Belgrade

A. Rowan Gard, University of St Andrews, Moana, mobility and making of meaning

Godoy, G. Marcelo, Weil G., Karin, Universidad Austral de Chile, Mobility of

collections in araucanía chilena: Th e eff ects of working in network

E. Angelini, M. Bongiovanni, A. Gori, Politecnico di Torino and Museo Galileo,

Galileo @Politecnico: From the stars to the applied sciences

Maria Dolores Ruiz De Lacanal, University of Seville, University heritage of Fine arts

faculty (Seville-Spain)

Vincenza Montenegro, Augusto Garuccio, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro,

Th e Museum of Merceology of the University of Bari

Susanna Hakkarainen, University of Helsinki, Saving the agricultural collection of the

University of Helsinki

Chiara Marin, University of Padova, A partecipatory approach to the university

collections: the proposal of “ MU.VE.RE.-Musei (Scientifi ci) Veneti in rete”

Alicia Mellén-Tomás, Pilar Irala-Hortal, Universidad San Jorge, Spreading culture

through the web 2.0, Th e example of the Jalón Ángel’s archive

Ruggero Francescangeli, Augusto Garuccio, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo

Moro, Towards a perceptual integration of cataloguing records

Yvonne Reimers, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Th e Sudan Archaeological collection

of the Humboldt Universität Berlin and its East-German heritage

Johanna Lessing, Lisa Janke, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Universität

Technische Berlin, Orobates. Re_animated after 300 million years. An exhibition on

modern university research

Caroline Bauer, École nationale supérieure d’architecture et de paysage de Lille, Th e

Faculty of Science of Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy (Georges Tourry, Claude Goclowski and

Edmond Lay architects, 1968-1971): What future for this organic architecture?

Andreas Fotopoulos, University of Ioannina, A common approach to managing

preservation of academic heritage in Greece

Daniela Paradiso, Augusto Garuccio, Ruggero Francescangeli, Università degli

Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, A handbook for school’s scientifi c collections

S. Vallmitjana, A. Marzoa, S. García, P. Mateos, O. Silvestre, Universitat de

Barcelona, Polarimeters of the Faculty of physics of the University of Barcelona

Panagiotis Lazos, National and KapodIstrian Univeristy of Athens, Th e Collection of

scientifi c instruments in the Phanar Greek Orthodox college in Istanbul

Erich Weidenhammer, University of Toronto, Networks and exchange at Canadian

research university

Special presentation by Paolo Ferri and Pegram Harrison on the behalf of Oxford-

Bologna consortium (OxBo) 18.10 – 19.00 Serbian folklore Krsmanac

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09.06.2016, Friday

Rectorate Building of the University of Belgrade

09.00 - 11.00 Th ematic Session “Mobility of University Heritage” (part 1)

Chair: Sofi a Talas

09.00 - 09.20 Mungo Campbell, University of Glasgow, Perpetual motion?

Reconsidering the “Permanent Collection”

09.20 - 09.40 Lea Leppik, University of Tartu, Heritage and inheritors. Mobility

without Moving

09.40 - 10.00 Marlen Mouliou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,

Systems thinking and the mobility of university museum collections;

tracing connecting threads

10.00 - 10.20 Steph Scholten, University of Amsterdam, Moving academic

collections

10.20 -10.40 J. Davoigneau, F. Le Guet Tully, French Ministry of Culture and

Communication, Radio antennas at Nancay Observatory: from

intellectual and geographical mobility to musealisation

10.40 - 11.00 Paul Lambers, Utrecht University, Collection of the University Museum

Utrecht on the move

11.00 - 11.20 Coffee break

11.20 - 13.10 Visits to the Museum of Chemistry, Museum of Mineral and Rocks,

Archaeology Collection (and possibly collection of psychology

instruments)

13.10-13.30 Walk to the Botanical Garden

13.30 - 15.00 Lunch and visit to the Botanical Garden

15.00 - 15.30 Walk to the University building

15.30 - 19.00 Working group session

20.00 Conference dinner at the Old town Skadarlia

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10.06.2017, Saturday

Faculty of Sport and Physical Education

08.00 Gathering in the inner yard of the University building and walking

to a bus awaiting

08.15 Heading to the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, Kosutnjak

08.30-09.00 Coff ee break

09.00-09.10 Th e Dean’s welcome

09.10-11.30 Th ematic Session “Mobility of University Heritage” (part 2)

Chair: Milan Popadić

09.10-09.30 Jack Ridley, Th e University of Manchester, Just like the real thing?

Th e infl atable museum, outreach and authenticity

09.30-09.50 Maciej Kluza, Jagiellonian University, Traveling exhibitions as a

method of promotion of university scientifi c heritage.

09.50-10.10 Ivana Mitrovic, Darko Mitrovic, University of Belgrade, Mobility to

prevent, collect and integrate

10.10-10.30 Gert Vanpaemel, University of Leuven, Moving props, places and

people. Challenges and opportunities for a decentralized university

museum

10.30-10.50 James Caplan, University of Aix-Marseille, Th e Marseille Observatory

collection - A case study of mobility

10.50-11.10 Coline Gutter, University of Strasbourg, Th e plaster cast collection of

Strasbourg and its history

11.10-11.30 Juan Miguel Palma Pena, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de

México, Th e mobility of informative heritage of public higher

education institutions through open access and patrimonialization

11.30-13.00 Universeum General Assembly

13.00-14.30 Visit to the Museum of Sport and lunch at the Faculty

14.30-14.45 Heading to the Faculty of Forestry

14.45-16.00 Visit to arboretum and collections of the Faculty of Forestry

16.00-16.15 Heading to the Faculty of Veterinary Science and Medical School

16.15-18.15 Visits to collections of Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and

Medical School

18.15-18.30 Returning to the Rectorate building

18.30-19.00 Coff ee

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Posters

Vincenza Montenegro, Augusto Garuccio, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Th e Museum of Merceology of the University of Bari

Erich Weidenhammer, University of Toronto, Networks and exchange at Canadian research university

Srećko R. Trifunović, Ivana D. Radojević, Sava M. Vasić, University of Kragujevac,Cultural heritage-Faculty of Science of the University of Kragujevac

Jelena Jovanović Simić, Museum of Science and Technology-University of Belgrade,

Collections and Museums of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade: past, present and

future

Jelena Manojlović, Milica Mirić, Dušanka Krajnović, University of Belgrade, Preventive

protection of pharmaceutical cultural and historic heritage

Johanna Lessing, Lisa Janke, Humboldt-Universitätzu Berlin and Universität Technische

Berlin, Orobates. Re_animated after 300 million years.An exhibition on modern university

research

Maria Dolores Ruiz De Lacanal, University of Seville, University heritage of fi ne arts faculty

(Seville-Spain)

Ruggero Francescangeli, Augusto Garuccio, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro,

Towards a perceptual integration of cataloguing records

A. Rowan Gard, University of St Andrews, Moana, mobility and making of meaning

Godoy, G. Marcelo, Weil G., Karin, Universidad Austral de Chile, Mobility of collections in

araucanía chilena: Th e eff ects of working in network

Adrijana Turajlić, University of Arts in Belgrade, University heritage in media

Alena Zdravković, Vesna Matović, University of Belgrade, Th e importance of preserving the

collection of rock and minerals at the faculty of mining and geology

Alicia Mellén-Tomás, Pilar Irala-Hortal, Universidad San Jorge, Spreading culture through

the web 2.0. Th e example of the Jalón Ángel’s archive

Andreas Fotopoulos, University of Ioannina , A common approach to managing preservation

of academic heritage in Greece

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Caroline Bauer, École nationale supérieure d’ architectureet de paysage de Lille, Th e Faculty

of Science of Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy (Georges Tourry, Claude Goclowski and Edmond Lay

architects, 1968-1971): What future for this organic architecture?

E. Angelini, M. Bongiovanni, A. Gori, Politecnico di Torino and Museo Galileo, Galileo @

Politecnico: From the stars to the applied sciences

Chiara Marin, University of Padova, A partecipatory approach to the university collections:

the proposal of “ MU.VE.RE.-Musei (Scientifi ci) Veneti in rete”

Daniela Paradiso, Augusto Garuccio, Ruggero Francescangeli, Università degli Studi di

Bari Aldo Moro, A handbook for school’s scientifi c collections

S. Vallmitjana, A. Marzoa, S. García, P. Mateos, O. Silvestre, Universitat de Barcelona,

Polarimeters of the Faculty of physics of the University of Barcelona

Susanna Hakkarainen, University of Helsinki, Saving the agricultural collection of the

University of Helsinki

Panagiotis Lazos, National and Kapodistrian Univeristy of Athens, Th e Collection of scientifi c

instruments in the Phanar Greek Orthodox college in Istanbul

Tatjana Brzulović Stanisavljević, University of Belgrade, Display of university heritage from the University Library in Belgrade

Yvonne Reimers, Humboldt-Universität Berlin , Th e Sudan Archaeological collection of the Humboldt Universität Berlin and its East-German heritage

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Abstracts

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PROTECTING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

WITHOUT KILLING THE IDEA

L. Zwislera

aTechnical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, 2800, Denmark

[email protected]

Keywords: Architecture, Originality, Intangible, Tangible, Environment

Abstract

Often conservation strategies for the built environment advocate focus on architecture and

originality and these are interesting features of many university campuses. But this focus could

also fossilize the buildings to such an extent, that they cannot support the main activities

of a university. What are we keeping for the future, if key activities move to other places? A

university must live and evolve and the built environment must often change with it. Should

conservation focus mainly on the mundane as well as the signs of use and change to capture

the atmospheres, the lives lived and the purposes of universities as integrated into the built

environment. Integrating traces of the past into refurbishments and new buildings can be a

way forward. But we need to be very vigilant about our choices and the eff ects of them. Th ere is

more at stake than practicalities. Th e preserved becomes symbolic, often idealized, and aff ects

identities. If houses, as Bourdieu claims, can make us reproduce patterns of behavior, our

conservation strategies carry very deep messages. One message could be that the past and the

future are connected at a university.

Biographical Note(s):

Laila Zwisler heads the History of Technology division, which works with the heritage of the Technical

University of Denmark. Her current research interests are technical academia, academic heritage as well

as engineering education and practices.

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A ‘DARK AND SORDID MUDDLE’: THE NEW MUSEUMS SITE

IN CAMBRIDGE AND THE PROBLEM OF LOST

AND RADICALLY ALTERED SCIENTIFIC BUILDINGS

B. Jardinea

a University of Cambridge, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane,

Cambridge, CB2 3RH, United Kingdom

[email protected]

Keywords: Laboratories, Museums, Demolished Buildings, Scientifi c Sites

Abstract

Th e New Museums Site, Cambridge, was the main home the University’s science departments

from 1865 until the mid-20th century. In addition to natural history museums and scientifi c

libraries, it housed the ever-growing laboratories of chemistry and physics (the ‘Cavendish

Laboratory’). In the second half of the 20th century, in search of space, scientifi c departments

moved to the outskirts of the town. Now the site is undergoing a major redevelopment. Owing

to the presence of historic buildings associated with the ‘golden age’ of Cambridge physics,

there is plenty of scope for the site to be understood in historical terms, though this plays an

ambiguous role in current plans. My research looks at these laboratories alongside museum

buildings on the site that were demolished long ago, so from my point of view any historical

understanding of the site already requires imaginative or virtual treatment. In this paper I give

an outline of the present situation of the site and invite discussion about the best way to (a)

situate my own research fi ndings in relation to the site’s future and (b) solve the problem of

interpreting buildings that are either lost or have dramatically changed in their use and internal

layout.


Boris Jardine’s research focuses on the material culture of science. He has published on many aspects

of scientifi c instrumentation. His current project, ‘Th e Lost Museums of Cambridge Science’ looks at

scientifi c collections in Cambridge at the end of the nineteenth century.

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TRADITIONALIST ARCHITECTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ST

ANDREWS: AN HISTORICAL DEBATE ON THE PRESERVATION OF

ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

J. A. Burdgea

aUniversity of St Andrews, Museum Collections Unit, 87 North Street, St Andrews, KY16 9AE,

Scotland, UK

[email protected]

Keywords: building preservation, historic value, architectural beauty, building use

Abstract

Th is paper will present opposed arguments on building preservation as represented by the

opinions of two Scottish architects from the 19th century and the buildings they designed for the

University of St Andrews. Both architects were exponents of the late 19th century Traditionalist

Movement, and were advocates for an architectural education which emphasised the study and

recording of historic buildings and interiors that represented the ‘true’ Scottish style. However,

they diff er in their ideas on assessing the value of an historic building and consequently in

the approaches they present for preservation. Fundamentally, the arguments are based on the

familiar architectural debate of function versus beauty – is beauty enough? Or do you have

to adapt to survive? While the debate is familiar, it is not resolved. Th is paper proposes an

historical perspective on a specifi c argument for the preservation of architectural heritage,

but the opinions remain relevant and are intended to off er one angle to the wider debate of

this session on University buildings. In particular contributing to such questions as ‘what part

of their architectural heritage should universities preserve?’ and ‘how can the preservation of

historic university buildings be managed alongside the continuous drive for innovation and

expansion?’


Jessica Burdge has been Collections Curator at the University of St Andrews Museum Collections since

2007. From 2010 to 2012 she was seconded to the National Museums Scotland as Collections Care

Manager for the Royal Museum Project. Since 2014, she has also been working part-time towards a PhD

on University architecture.

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HISTORICAL VALUES IN DANGER?

FROM HISTORICAL INTERIORS

TO MODERN MULTISPACE OFFICES

P. Rainio

Helsinki University Museum, P.O. Box 3, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland

[email protected]

Keywords: architecture, multi-space offi ces, architectural heritage, historical interiors

Abstract

Th e University of Helsinki has been a considerable developer for nearly two centuries and its

buildings have had a major impact to the city of Helsinki. Th e unique interiors, furniture and art

works are part of this architectural heritage.

Th e idea of work has crucially changed during recent years. Digitalization, new demands on the

offi ce work environment, modern space and energy effi ciency requirements have meant rapid

changes in architectural planning. Flexible workspace has become a trend. Multifunctional

open-plan offi ces, mobile workstations and fl exible meeting rooms are becoming more

common. Th ey have also been implemented in historical and artistically valuable buildings. Th e

legislation based protection of cultural heritage covers part of the architectural heritage. Recent

budget cuts forced the university to reduce its premises. Some valuable interiors, art works and

furniture have been endangered.

What happens when a valuable historical building is changed from a university building to a

multi-space state offi ce? Is some part of the architectural heritage being compromised? How

does this transformation aff ect historically signifi cant architecture, interiors and collections

in general? Is there a risk of losing something unreplaceable? Th e current trends can have a

massive impact on our architectural heritage. How to react to a major cultural change?


Päivi Rainio works as a curator of collections in the Helsinki University Museum. She manages the

art, furniture and drawing collections owned by the University of Helsinki. Main research interests are

collection management, art collections and preventive conservation.

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IMPLEMENTATION OF BIM TECHNOLOGY IN DOCUMENTING

UNIVERSITY HERITAGE BUILDINGS

M. Devetakovića, M. Radojevićb, A. Ciganovićc

aUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 73/2, Belgrade, SerbiabUniversity of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 73/2, Belgrade, Serbia

cInstitute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Serbia, Radoslava Grujića 11, Belgrade, Serbia

[email protected]

Keywords: BIM, Building Information Modelling, Heritage, Building of Technical Faculties, Belgrade

Abstract

Building information modelling (BIM) is an emerging technology in designing new and maintaining

existing architectural objects. In the centre of this technology stands a digital building model,

consisting of intelligent building components. Such model is made for visualisation purposes, but

is also the source of all possible documentation related to a modelled building: accurate plans,

cross-sections, elevations, details and so on. In this paper the authors analyse the case of modelling

the Building of Technical Faculties that belongs to Belgrade University heritage.For this building,

the BIM technology has been tested with a group of master architecture students, working

collaboratively during one semester, simulating the BIM context in an architectural practice. As

for many heritage buildings, the traditional paper-based documentation was insuffi cient to fully

support the process of modelling.For the main entry hall, a 3D scan needed to be produced,resulting

in a point cloud that describes the space. Since this case might be common for other university

heritage buildings,the authors stress a need forupgrading the existing documentation and

digitising it so that it could be used for the heritage buildings promotion,further maintenance and

example of a good practice in a wider heritage domain.

Biographic notes:

Mirjana Devetaković received her PhD and MSc degrees from University of Belgrade. She holds an

assistant professor (docent) position at the Faculty of Architecture, teaching Parametric Modelling,

Integrated Modelling and BIM. Her research interests are focused on phenomenon of architectural

knowledge and its codifi cation.

Milan Radojević received his PhD and MSc degrees from University of Belgrade. He holds an assistant

professor (docent) position at the Faculty of Architecture, teaching Building Services and Facility

Management. Milan is the founding member of Serbian Facility Management Association.

Aleksa Ciganović received his diploma degrees from University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture.

Employed as a senior advisor in the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Serbia. Among

other things, engaged in more conservation-restoration elaborates and projects on the cultural monuments

and protected immovable cultural heritage in the state and the monuments of Serbian origin abroad.

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A MONUMENTAL COMPLEX IN CATANIA WITH

A NEW “UNIVERSITY ROLE”:

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

F. M. C. Santagati

University of Catania, DISUM Dept., piazza Dante 32, Catania, 95124, Italy

[email protected]

Keywords: UNESCO, Catania, ancient and contemporary architectures, heritage education,

communities

Abstract

Catania’s Benedictine Monastery, built and rebuilt between the 16th - 18th centuries, modifi ed

in the 19th and 20th centuries for various changes to its use, was donated by the Council to

Catania University in 1977 to house the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy. Th e architect

Giancarlo De Carlo realised the architectural restoration project (recognized in 2008 by the

Sicilian Regional Authority as a Contemporary Work of Architecture). In 2002, it was declared

part of UNESCO’s Heritage. In the 1990s the University moved into the Monastery: since then

students, professors and administration staff have occupied the space allotted to them, “co-

habiting” in an historic building where the people of Catania, Italian and foreign tourists freely

enter all day. Th e building is also used for events organized by accredited bodies upon their

request. A private cultural association (comprising sector professionals) handles the cultural

use of the Benedictine complex, as the University does not currently have the proper fi nancial

and management resources. Th e students, the youngest and most numerous users of the

Monastery, must be educated to respect the space. A more eff ective control of the Monastery

should be taken and all university staff should be involved in the enhancement of the Complex,

for a lasting and sustainable development.


Federica Maria Chiara Santagati teaches Museology at the University of Catania. She has published

monographs on museum-related themes, essays in journals and in conference proceedings. Her studies

have been concentrated mainly on the safeguarding of cultural heritage, organization and setting up of

museums and exhibitions, and public engagement with museums.

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A HOME TO HOUSE A MUSEUM: HISTORY OF THE BUILDING

E. Kitta, E. Papoulias, M. Pichou

Athens University History Museum, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,

Th olou 5 Plaka, Athens 10556, Greece, [email protected]

Keywords: architectural heritage, academic heritage, historic buildings, rehabilitation

Abstract

How can universities manage and promote their architectural heritage? Th is is the main question

which will be addressed in this paper by presenting the Athens University History Museum as

a good practice of turning historic and jeopardized buildings into museums for the purposes of

architectural preservation through continued use.

Th roughout the 20th century, this practice became increasingly common. Th e last few decades,

there is still a continuing concern about the architectural heritage in the historical centres of

many cities across Europe, where many historical buildings which belong to universities are

landmarks and important to the local community.

Th is is also the case of the Athens University History Museum building which, although initially

a private residence, served as the fi rst home of the Athens University, the fi rst University of

the Independent Greek State, from 1837 until 1841. Th roughout its long life, the building has

been used in various ways and became associated with diff erent historical periods of the Greek

capital as well as the lives of many famous or everyday Athenian residents. Its fi nal use as

museum allowed us in 2016, to inaugurate a new gallery, which highlights the most important

architectural phases of the building and its diff erent uses throughout the years.

Finally, this paper aims at exploring initiatives that universities could follow in order to

communicate the architectural values of their buildings.


Elena Kitta, Conservator of Works of Art with a MA in Museum Studies, Athens University History

Museum. Research interests: preventive conservation, collection management, collections in historic

buildings, museum’s building history and creation of an oral history archive of the building’s previous

tenants.

Evangelos Papoulias, PhD is Archaeologist – Expert on Heritage Management and Administrator of

the Department of Museums and Historical Archive of the University of Athens.

Myrsini Pichou, Cultural Manager (MSc, MA-Courtauld History of Art). Research interests: university

heritage interpretation, museum communication, university heritage and the city, interactive activities

for adults.

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MARKO STOJANOVIC HOUSE AS A UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM

O. Eric

Curator of Th e Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Ignjata Joba 53, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

[email protected]

Keywords: Private house, state academy, art collection, shopping center

Abstract

Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade is located in the former house of Marko Stojanovic, a respected

lawyer and Vice Governor of the Serbian National Bank. Th is building was made by architect

Konstantin Jovanovic , who was the son of the famous Serbian photographer Anastas Jovanovic.

Now Marko Stojanovic’s home has the status of protected architectural heritage. Since 1937.

Th e Academy/Faculty of Fine Arts has been hosed in this house. Art works of the Faculty Art

Collection are to be seen in all Faculty classrooms, work spaces and corridors. During the 1980s

and 1990s, the basement of this building was transformed to a students’ club named ‘’Academy’’,

which eventually became a famous place of avant-garde art happenings. But now the architectural

structure of this artistic space has collapsed because of the building the Shopping Center

across the street. Th us, the presentation will discuss the possibilities of architecture-artistic

preservation and presentation academic heritage under the existing circumstances. Th erefore,

the presentation will consider the real affi rmation of Faculty spaces to attract Shopping Mall

visitors and other public interested in art.


Olivera Eric was born in 1974 in Belgrade. She has a Ph.D. in Th eory of Drama Arts, Media and Culture,

which was acquired at Th e Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade. Eric research interests related to affi rmative

use of university heritage and his interdisciplinary connections with other arts and disciplines.

NOTE: Olivera Eric’s presentation is connected to A. Turajlic’s poster as they collaborated on these

topics.

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REARRANGE UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS

IN HISTORICAL BUILDINGS TO STRENGTHEN THE IDENTITY

OF UNIVERSITIES. NEW PROJECTS

FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA

E. Corradini1a, E. Endrighi2b

aUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”, Via Vivarelli 10,

41123 Modenab University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Life Sciences, Via Amendola 2,

42121 Reggio Emilia

[email protected]

[email protected]

Keywords: historical buildings, Obstetric Museum, Anatomical Theatre, museum network

Abstract

University collections can help strengthen the identity of historic Universities through proper

restoration not only of the set-up of the historical collections, which are evidences of the

progress of research in diff erent disciplines, but also of the historical spaces that housed them,

for they represent crucial contexts to rebuild the suggestion of their environments, thanks also

to the use of new technologies.

We intend to present the ongoing activities at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia,

increased through the Network of Italian University Museums. Th e fi rst real arrangement of

the University of Modena was shaped in the second half of the 18th century when the University

shaped its true identity. For this reason, some projects for the restoration of the most signifi cant

buildings of that age have been undertaken as a way to re-enable spaces devoted to renovated

collections exhibitions. We intend to focus on: the ongoing restoration of the Anatomical

Th eatre, which involves, in the contiguous spaces, a new exhibition of the 18th century Obstetric

Museum, built by Antonio Scarpa; the restoration project – also for museum purposes – of the

former university laboratories within the complex of the 18th century Hospital of Sant’Agostino

in the same block; and the renovation project of some spaces of the Rector’s Palace, recently

vacated after the relocation of the Law Library.


Elena Corradini is Professor of Museology and Monument Restoration at the University Modena-R. E,

member Collegium Doctoral School in Human Sciences, Rector delegate for the University Museums

network; board member of UMAC, national coordinator of the Italian University Museums Network;

curator of exhibitions, seminars and author of more than 150 publications about museums, collections

and the cultural heritage

Emiro Endrighi studied Agricultural Science and Social and Political Sciences at the University of

Bologna. He is Professor of Political Economy, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

1999-2004 – Member of the EU “Committee on Protected Geographical Indications and Protected

Designations of Origin”. 2002-2006 – President of LAG Antico Frignano e Appennino Reggiano.

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A CRYPT FOR BIG MACHINES: INHABITING A SPACE

WHERE AN ACCELERATOR WAS

E. Weidenhammera

a Associate, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST)

Apt 1711, 160 Erskine Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4P 1Z3

[email protected]

Keywords: Accelerator, Architecture, Canada, Toronto

Abstract

Between 1966 and 1978, the Department of Physics of the University of Toronto operated a

linear accelerator in the subbasement of the McLennan Physical Laboratories building. After

its decommissioning, the cavernous space was partly fi lled by another high energy physics

instrument, a tandem accelerator mass spectrometer which was removed in 2008.

In 2017, the primary collection of historical material culture belonging to the University of

Toronto will move into this now vacant space—a strange and disorderly environment in which

one encounters the picked-over remains of decades of high energy research. Massive radiation

doors stand immobile. Machined components of vacuum apparatus and large components of

high energy instruments—many donated by other facilities and never used—still litter the many

rooms, slowly lost to scavenging, scrap recycling, and supplanted by stored obsolete equipment

and abandoned offi ce furniture that large institutions fi ll forgotten spaces with.

Establishing a historical collection here provides rich possibilities for representing and

interpreting the architectural environment and for accumulating and documenting orphaned

objects. Th is eff ort is a struggle against much the same institutional inertia that caused the

space to become abandoned.

Th e presenter solicits suggestions on interpreting and representing this architectural relic.


Erich Weidenhammer is the curator of the University of Toronto Scientifi c Instruments Collection

(UTSIC). He received his PhD from the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in 2014.

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IN THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE: HUMAN REMAINS

IN THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

R. de Raat

University Museum Utrecht, Lange Nieuwstraat 106, 3512PN Utrecht, Th e Netherlands

[email protected]

Keywords: Human Remains, University Museums, Exhibition

Abstract

At the end of the 20th century and the fi rst deca de of the 21st century there has been an increase

of publications on human remains in museums. Most publications concerning ethical issues are

related to archaeological and anthropological museums. Th e authors wonder whether human

remains should be shown to the public or even repatriated to the country of origin for reburial.

In these publications they mostly refer to the ICOM museum code of ethics. As Gazi (2014)

already argued in his overview on exhibition ethics, museum workers have lately developed

an increased cultural sensitivity and social responsiveness. Contrary to an ongoing trend in

the media, wherein photographs of dead human bodies are published more often without any

hesitation to emotionally engage the audience, the audience tends to fi nd the exhibition of

human remains in a museum environment in some way controversial. Th e Utrecht University

museum experienced this several years ago when a national debate arose after representatives

of the former island Urk reclaimed the human skulls of inhabitants, which had been in the

possession of the Utrecht University for a few hundred years.

Th is changing tendency has led to a more reluctant policy regarding the exhibiting of human

specimens in museums worldwide. In some European countries, including Th e Netherlands,

several museums have chosen not to exhibit human specimens anymore.Th e Utrecht University

Museum will redevelop the museum in 2018 and therefore we need to reconsider our attitude

towards the display of human remains. What kind of exhibition do we want to create, taking

into account our visitors are mostly children between the age of 8 and 14 guided by their

parents? Publications describing research of children’s attitude when confronted with human

specimens are very scarce. However, the museum should be aware of its audience sensitiveness.

Th e University Museum has decided to frame the sensitive material and give it the academic

context it requires to be fully understood.

A University Museum should not be guided by the spirit of the age, but must honor its scientifi c

tradition. Giving children the opportunity to be fascinated by the human body, alive or dead,

requires proper guidance and preparation of both parents and our youngest visitors. In

addition, the display of human remains provides a unique platform for a dialogue about medical

knowledge, ethics and respect.

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Biographical note:

Reina de Raat is curator of medical and dental collections, Utrecht University Museum, Th e Netherlands.

Studies: Paramedic (Radboud University Nijmegen), History (Leiden University) and master program

Medical History (VU University Amsterdam). She is a columnist in two Dental magazines (Dentz and

Quality Practice Dentistry), the initiator, and co-author of Th e Canon of Dutch Dentistry (published in

2014). Reina gives lectures about the development of dentistry in the Netherlands to dental students

(Faculty of Dentistry Amsterdam, ACTA).

She does research on the socio-historical development of dentistry and ophthalmology,

a comparative study.

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WHAT TO SHOW AND WHAT NOT

H. Hooijmaijers

Museum Boerhaave, Lange St. Agnietenstraat 10, 2312 WC Leiden, Th e Netherlands

[email protected]

Keywords: presentation ethics, human remains, photos

Abstract

Th e Dutch National Museum of Science and Medicine, Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, is in the

middle of a major refurbishment. Not only will the infrastructure be totally renewed, but also

the exhibition will get a total makeover. Besides building challenges, the museum is confronted

with ethical challenges too. In its collection are not only human remains, but also a large

collection of photos. Th e last one ranges from photos of patients in an asylum to patient X-ray

photos and electrocardiograms.

During the development of the content, discussion arose about displaying human remains and

the photos. It was felt that there is a discrepancy between the scientifi c/museological world and

the audience with regard to this theme. Th e fi rst are more and more reluctant to show pieces to

the public, mainly out of ethical reasons. Th e latter however stands in rows in front of another

Body World exhibition and share their (intimate) photos on all kind of media.

For the sake of a balanced view we decided to display some of the items, but in a cautious way.

Our main diffi culty remains: people never gave permission for this. I wonder, how is this subject

tackled among other Universeum members?


Hans Hooijmaijers is Vice Director at Museum Boerhaave. He started as curator of physics and

astronomy and curated exhibitions on weather, light, food, Christiaan Huygens, clocks and telescopes.

His latest writing projects were on Dutch orreries, the Leiden Observatory and the history of Dutch

navigation. At the moment he is supervising the refurbishment of the museum.

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FOR WHOM ARE WE TO STORE, IF WE DO NOT STRIVE TO STUDY.

M. Fredriksson

Matilda Fredriksson, Igeldammsgatan 36, 112 49 Stockholm

[email protected]

Keywords: Human remains, Anatomical collection, University collections, Skeletal remains

Abstract

Th e anatomical collection at Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala University, was formed during

the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s. Th e individuals were mainly collected from archaeological

excavations, old cemeteries, barter and on rare occasion from executions or mental institutions.

Th e purpose was to create an anatomical collection for medical education, a purpose that

drastically changed in the 1920’s where new ideas concerning eugenics began to form. Th e

collection has, therefore, for a long period of time been considered tainted due to its troublesome

past connected to the accumulation of the remains and the eugenic research connected to it.

Th is has for many years overshadowed the collection’s scientifi c value and lead to a disinclination

to handle the collection. Th e collection is now being compiled and digitalised, and is despite

of its dark past an incredibly valuable resource due to the vast complexity and representation

considering both pathology, taphonomy and individual variations. A collection of this calibre

may not be recreated today for both ethical and political reasons. Which means that the value

of the collection is scientifi cally invaluable and unfortunately vastly underused. So how do we

destigmatize historically sensitive collections, and why keep them if not in the name of science?


Matilda Fredriksson is a master student of osteoarchaeology at Uppsala University where she aims to

development new methods for digital marine osteoarchaeology. Fredriksson had an internship at the

osteological collection at Museum Gustavianum in 2016, and is active in the research projects for the

naval ships Mars and Gribshunden.

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HUMAN REMAINS THROUGH THE LENS OF A MEDICAL

UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

M. Bukowski

Museum of Medical University of Gdańsk, al. Zwycięstwa 41/42, Gdansk, 80-210, Poland

[email protected]

Keywords: medical university museum, importance of human remains, students evaluation

questionnaire

Abstract

Human remains are extremely delicate in management and shaping opinion. Museum of Medical

University of Gdansk has on display 6 clay skulls, 1 clay brain, and several anatomical models

made of wax, steel, and clay. Why does it not present other humans remains? In this paper, some

topics concerning this issue will be discussed. Apart from possession of anatomical objects,

proper technical infrastructure and several other conditions have to be fulfi lled to expect the

success of this exhibition. How to balance anatomical show with other sort of objects [eg. related

to the history of the university]? Is it really necessary to present a human remains to the wide

audience? If not, what kind of limitation should be established? Have types of human remains

[anatomical, pathological, forensic etc] an important impact on the perception of exposition?

What can we say about the epistemological value of such objects? Is it really important for

shaping doctors’ skills? How to describe a cultural aspect and impact of collections of human

remains on the judgment of society? Finally, results of a questionnaire dedicated to evaluation

of students’ of Medical University of Gdańsk needs and expectations, and remarks about human

remains expressed at the collection will be presented.


Marek Bukowski is MD, PhD, pediatric surgeon, and supervisor of the Museum of MUG, Poland. He is

also vice-chairman of the Polish University Museums Association. Main fi elds of interests are history of

pediatric surgery and history of science.

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HUMAN REMAINS IN THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE

OF MONTPELLIER

C. Ducourau

University of Montpellier, 163 rue Auguste Broussonnet, Montpellier, 34090, France

[email protected]

Keywords: Anatomy, Montpellier, cultural mediation

Abstract

Th e University of Montpellier’s Faculty of Medicine houses an impressive anatomy collection,

displayed in a magnifi cent gallery specially built in the mid-19th century. Almost half of the

collection is composed of body parts showing normal and pathological human anatomy. It off ers

remarkable insight into the teaching of anatomy before the advent of “living anatomy”. Th e

origin of this collection dates back to the last years of the French Revolution; in the course of the

19th and 20th centuries, the collection continued to expand thanks to the Faculty of Medicine’s

activities in practical anatomy and surgery.

Th e whole collection is at the present time exhibited, since the Faculty does not have enough

storage room yet. Th is technical issue has not only consequences in matter of conservation,

but also of mediation with the visitors who could be outraged by some items. Th e current way

chosen to alleviate this problem is the guided visit, so that these items are explained and put

in their context. Finally, in order to improve our knowledge of the public’s expectations and

feelings, a questionnaire focused on the sensitive themes of the collection has been elaborated,

and its results will be presented.


After studies in History and History of Art of the 19th century, Caroline Ducourau is curator, director of

the scientifi c culture and the historical heritage of the University of Montpellier, which houses scientifi c

and technical collections. Among them, the anatomical collection is the fi eld of professional experience

of the author.

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WHAT ARE HUMAN REMAINS?

N. Curtis

University of Aberdeen Museums, Old Aberdeen Town House, High Street, Aberdeen AB24 3EN,

Scotland

[email protected]

Keywords: human remains, Vermillion Accord, repatriation, destructive analysis

Abstract

Th e University of Aberdeen has large and varied collections, including many that are classed

as human remains. Th is includes the remains of prehistoric and medieval people excavated

in North-East Scotland, anatomical and pathological spirit-preserved specimens, racial type

specimens of human skulls and traditionally preserved remains of people acquired as part of

ethnographic collections. Th ere are also grave goods, items of clothing, anatomical models

and paintings, religious and ceremonial items and so on that would not normally be classed as

‘human remains’ but which have powerful meanings.

Can we defi ne human remains? If not, how can we appropriately respond to challenges to

conventional museum practice? Th e Vermillion Accord (World Archaeological Congress)

focuses on ensuring respect, but does not give direction. Th is presentation will consider some

examples from Aberdeen which have required ethical decisions to be made about the treatment

of human remains. Th ese include the repatriation of nine Toi moko to New Zealand, the display

of pathological specimens, prehistoric burials and tsantsas in King’s Museum exhibitions, and

the sampling of human bones for radiocarbon dating, stable isotope analysis and ancient DNA

studies. Is a coherent approach possible?


Neil Curtis is head of museums and programme Director for the museum studies MLitt in the

University of Aberdeen. He is also a member of the ethics committee of the museums Association (UK).

His background is in scottish archaeology, but most of his recent work has focused on museum history

and practice.

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SKIN, FLESH, SKELETTON, RELICS… HUMAN REMAINS:

HOW DOES IT WORK IN BELGIUM

WALLONIABRUSSELS FEDERATION?

N. Nyst

ULB Museums Network, Free University of Brussels, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50 – CP 175,

Brussels, 1050, Belgium

[email protected]

Keywords: Museums & collections, human remains, public authorities, laws

Abstract

Th e Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Belgium) has recognized –and is fi nancing– museums which

conserve and, for some of them, exhibit human remains from various provenances.

Th is short talk will explore some of the questions raised by such presentations of human pieces within

institutions (including university museums), managed partly with public funds. Th e links between such

diff erent kinds of human remains on one hand, and public authorities and fi nancing on the other hand,

will be shortly explored. An example is the fact that some of these collections could legally be considered

as “classifi ed material cultural goods”.

Biographical Note:

Dr Nathalie Nyst teaches the master of cultural management programme at the Faculty of Philosophy

and Social Sciences, and has coordinated the ULB museums network since 2004. She is also Director for

the Direction of the Cultural of the Ministry of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation where she deals mainly

with museum public policies.

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BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL HUMAN COLLECTION

IN THE VILNIUS UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE, LITHUANIA

J. Kozakaitė a, R. Jankauskas b

a Vilnius University, Faculty of History, Universiteto 7, Vilnius, 01122, Lithuaniab Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine, M.K.Čiurlionio 21, Vilnius, 03101, Lithuania

[email protected]

Keywords: osteology, human remains, collection, Lithuania

Abstract

Over the years, the Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University has accumulated a collection

from dozens of important archaeological sites in Lithuania, spanning from the Mesolithic to

the Modern Era, comprising over 12,000 skeletal, cremated and mummifi ed human remains

curated for research. Materials were started to be collected before the 1st World War; since then,

a systematic inventory of all available material was created and it is currently being developed

as an open access system, which would be available to researchers of various fi elds. Principles of

collection and curation refl ect changing paradigm of bioanthropology (from craniology/typology

towards population-oriented human biology: human growth and variability, paleopathology,

nutrition, paleogenetics etc.). While this collection is a valuable resource for specialists, access

of the general public is limited. Th erefore, ethical issues of its use for education purposes and

public display (e.g., Th e exhibition Citynature: Vilnius and Beyond that combines art and

scientifi c research refl ecting the city as a changing ecosystem where archaeological remains

are exposed) need to be addressed. As our practice demonstrates, following rigorous rules of

ethical display is not an easy task.


Justina Kozakaitė is a PhD student of History at Vilnius University. Main fi elds of scientifi c interest are

trauma in a paleopathology and historical context, and history of mass graves. Other interests include

mummy studies, peculiar pathological cases, and bioarchaeology of children.

Rimantas Jankauskas is a professor of medicine at Vilnius University. Main fi elds of interest are

paleopathology and history of diseases, population biology of past populations, and forensic anthropology.

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SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET

E. Lange, A. Lefkaditou

Th e Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology (NorskTeknisk Museum- NTM),

Kjelsåsvn 143, 0491 Oslo

[email protected]

Keywords: Medical collection, human remains, experiment, museology

Abstract

A starting point for the project “Sk eletons in the Closet” is the collection of human remains at

the National Medical Museum in Norway. Th e collection has been previously used and stored

at the Oslo University Hospital but there is much left to explore. Our aim is to provide this

material with the care it deserves and to address some of the emerging questions: Where does

it come from? What kind of previous practices and understandings has it been involved in?

With these questions in mind, in November 2016, we invited several persons with diverse social

connections and relations to the collection to discuss around and decide upon these issues. We

literally placed parts of our collection on the table and we discussed together over a two-day

workshop.

Here, we will present the project and our main argument: that engagement with this material

should come fi rst, even if the legal, ethical, and museological frameworks are still unsettled.

We will refl ect on how this experimental process has developed, how it is infl uenced by the

proximity to the actual human remains, and how we can focus our energy and address the new

insights from the workshop in our future work.

Biographical Notes:

Ellen Lange is a curator at the National Medical Museum/ Norwegian Museum of Science and

Technology, and leader of the project “Skeletons in the closet.” Previously, she has worked, among other

things, with documenting and exhibiting personal experiences from institutions for tuberculosis, mental

illness, disabled persons and health care for illegal immigrants.

Ageliki Lefkaditou is a historian of science and senior curator at the National Medical Museum/

Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. She is currently developing an exhibition on historical

and contemporary research on human variation focusing on the interactions between scientifi c practices

and social/cultural understandings of identity and belonging.

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WHAT FUTURE FOR THE DUPUYTREN COLLECTIONS

OF ANATOMICAL PATHOLOGY?

F. Andry-Cazin

4 place Jussieu – BC 192, Paris, 75005, France

[email protected]

Keywords: anatomical pathology, ethics, museum exhibit

Abstract

Created in 1834 with the legacy of Guillaume Dupuytren, French anatomist and surgeon at the

Paris Faculty of Medicine, the museum closed for the fi rst time in 1937. Th en the collections

were stored in cellars, resulting of the loss of a part of the collections. In 1967, the museum

reopened in new premises but in 2016, it had to close again without any reopening project.

Priority was given to the preservation of the collections which have been inventoried before

being relocated to storage, allowing to carry on research work on them. Th ese two closings

question the use of an anatomical pathology collection like this one and its evolution in time.

Th e transition from macroscopic anatomy to microscopy is certainly one of the reasons that

led to the fi rst closing of the museum. Following the last closing of the museum in 2016, the

priority now is to consider the ethical framework of the collection as well as the evolution of its

use in a new context: a collection without museum.


Frédérique Andry-Cazin is project manager of scientifi c and medical heritage at University Pierre

and Marie Curie (UPMC) in Paris- France since 2008. She works in particular at the promotion of

this heritage by organizing regular cultural mediation activities such as guided tours, exhibitions, and

photography competitions.

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PERPETUAL MOTION? RECONSIDERING THE

‘PERMANENT COLLECTION’

M. Campbell

Th e Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland

[email protected]

Keywords: Hunterian, display, research, teaching

Abstract

A key facet of any university collection is that a core community of its users, students, provides

a perpetually refreshed pool of new interactions, ideas and perspectives: the undergraduate

population particularly, renews itself at least a couple of times every decade. Across the broader

university community, research questions and pedagogies within specifi c academic disciplines

also shift remarkably rapidly compared with the longevity of the collections themselves. In

contrast, the project-development models through which the display and interpretation of

collections is renewed rarely align comfortably with such patterns of academic fl ux: planning

cycles, the resourcing of major capital investment and the anticipated lifespans of museum

redevelopment programmes all generate signifi cant challenges to the long-term alignment

between university museum displays and their core audiences.

As Th e Hunterian, at Th e University of Glasgow, prepares to undertake an unprecedented

programme of investment in its displays over the next decade, the exploration of strategies to

meet these challenges forms a fundamental strand of developmental planning. What are the

challenges to curatorial and managerial practice when such development processes demand

perpetual intellectual momentum and the continual re-articulation of displays? How far can

such complex projects be integrated into the research and teaching cultures of the university

museum?

Biographical Note:

Mungo Campbell is Deputy Director of Th e Hunterian at Th e University of Glasgow. He is currently

leading an international transdisciplinary research project to mark the tercentenary of William Hunter’s

birth in 2018 culminating with an exhibition in Glasgow and at the Yale Center for British Art.

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HERITAGE AND INHERITORS. MOBILITY WITHOUT MOVING

L. Leppik

University of Tartu Museum, Lossi 25, Tartu, 50606 Estonia

[email protected]

Keywords: Changing concept of heritage, culture of remembrance

Abstract

Our imagination about heritage is very mobile. It is changing from generation to generation,

depending on the political power of the country and on people who are willing to remember

or forget. Th ere can be no heritage when there is no inheritor. Heritage is always part of the

culture of remembrance, it is connected to values, available sources, actual topics in society. It

always depends on questions the inheritors are willing or able to ask. Th e University of Tartu is

a really good example in this sense, with its three or more beginnings that took place in diff erent

political and cultural contexts (1632 under the Swedish rule, 1802 under the German-Russian,

1919 under the Estonian) and jubilees celebrated in 1929 (10 years), in 1932 (300 years), in

1952 (150 years). Under the diff erent rulers the connections either to the West or to the East

were stressed, diff erent professors were remembered, statues were erected and destroyed. Every

period had its own heroes. We can speak about mobility without moving.

Now we are living in a free country and we do not have ideological control like in the Soviet

time any more. But there are still expectations with regard to the new permanent exhibition of

the University Museum and we are facing lots of questions. Should we stress the fi rst Swedish

creation? Or the second Russian creation (with German as language of tuition)? Or the Estonian

creation? Is it more important to show every famous professor or should we try to show only

a few selected ideas? How should we select? What can engage more public? Is it the right

criteria? How can we bring up the best inheritors to our heritage and in which direction will

they move it?

Biographical Note:

Lea Leppik (b. 1962), research director of the UT Museum, has dealt with 19th- and 20th-century history

of the University of Tartu, the history of Russian-German cultural contacts and curated the permanent

exhibition of Tartu Observatory (opened in 2011).

46


SYSTEMS THINKING AND THE MOBILITY

OF UNIVERSITY MUSEUM COLLECTIONS;

TRACING CONNECTING THREADS

M. Mouliou

Faculty of History and Archaeology and Masters Programme in Museum Studies,

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Philosophy,

University Campus, Athens, 157 84, Greece

[email protected] / [email protected]

Keywords: Systems thinking, world as a network, shifting metaphors, mobility of university museum

collections

Abstract

World-renowned systems theorists Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi, in their inspiring book

Th e Systems View of Life. A Unifying Vision (2014), approach age-old questions of the origin and

nature of life from a historical perspective and the perspective of modern science, and remind us

that all paradigms of scientifi c, social and cultural shifts have been “constellations of concepts,

values, perceptions, and practices shared by a community” (p. 4). Th ey further purport that,

throughout our scientifi c and philosophical tradition, two very diff erent lines of investigation

have been always in competition with one another: one studied the world as a machine – study

of matter, of quantities and constituents – and the other studied the world as forms, patterns,

relationships and qualities. Based on the latter, a new systemic conception of life has emerged

over the past 30 years whereby the world is studied as a network. Networks mean partnerships,

mobility of ideas, sharing of practices and much more.

What can be the connection between these shifting metaphors that seem like pendulum

swings, with the theme of the conference “Mobility of University Heritage” and generally with

the history, the richness of university collections as well as the identity of professional networks

like Universeum? Can university museum collections act as the material (or also immaterial)

traces of such swings and idea movements?

Th e presentation will try to map potential connections, ranging from the changing interdisciplinary

approaches to academic heritage interpretation to the actual enhancement of mobility of

collections. It will also attempt to propose practical ideas on how university traditions, and

through them perceptions of life, can be rendered more visible via university museum collections.

Biographical Note:

Marlen Mouliou is full-time Lecturer of Museology at the National and Kapodistrian University of

Athens (Faculty of History and Archaeology) and Co-ordinator of the Postgraduate Programme in

Museums Studies at the same University. She is Vice-Chair of Universeum and member of the Panel

of Judges of the European Museum of the Year Award. From 2010 to 2016 she has served as Secretary

and then Chair of the International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities

(CAMOC). Previously for many years, she worked at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (Directorate of

Museums, Exhibitions and Educational Programmes).

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MOVING ACADEMIC COLLECTIONS

S. C. Scholten

University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 94436, 1090 GK Amsterdam, Th e Netherlands

[email protected]

Keywords: museum ethics, mobility of collections, de-accessioning

Abstract

Th e University of Amsterdam holds enormous historical collections with an estimated 2 million

objects. In a typical year hundreds of meters of material are moved to other institutions, while

we acquire large quantities ourselves. Th is is based on the thesis that collections should be placed

where they can function the best. Th is is especially relevant for academic collections as research

interests change or are abandoned while new ones come to the forefront. In the Netherlands,

specifi c guidelines have been added to the ICOM Code of Ethics to be followed in case of de-

accessioning objects from museum collections. Th is author chaired the committee that drew

up these guidelines that are now also part of a new law on cultural heritage and museums. Th is

paper will describe and discuss these guidelines and draw on fi rst-hand experience with e.g.

taxonomical natural history collections, theatre and music collections and others.

Biographical Note:

Steph Scholten holds an MA in Art History and works as director of Heritage Collections at the

University of Amsterdam since 2009. His main research interests are theoretical concepts of cultural

heritage and museum ethics.

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RADIO ANTENNAS AT NANÇAY OBSERVATORY:

FROM INTELLECTUAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL MOBILITY

TO MUSEALISATION

J. Davoigneaua, F. Le Guet Tullyb

aDirection générale des Patrimoines, Ministère de la culture et de la communication, 182 rue Saint

Honoré, 75033 Paris Cedex 01, Franceb19 Quai de la Seine, 75019 Paris, France

[email protected]

Keywords: Astronomical heritage, re-use, institutional, geographical and intellectual mobility

Abstract

French radio-astronomy started in Paris soon after WWII, when Yves Rocard, Physics Professor

at the École Normale Supérieure, converted anti-aircraft radars into equipment for detecting

solar radio emission. Th is intellectual mobility process– namely war material becoming

scientifi c instruments – started a new astronomical research area soon transferred to the Paris

Observatory. In 1953 a radio astronomical station was set upon a large piece of land situated

200 km south of Paris. Its equipment consisted of two German Würzburg radars, plus one

radar and two light projectors from anti-aircraft American artillery. While new sets of radio

instruments were installed, the obsolete ones were either abandoned in situ, given away or

destroyed. Th e mobility processes involved then included turning one Würzburg antenna into

an iconic object at a War Museum and giving some items a “second life” through geographical

and institutional mobility. Th e fi rst step towards the musealisation of the station’s scientifi c

heritage was taken in the Jubilee year of Nançay, when engineers and technicians solicited the

protection of the Würzburg antenna still in situ. We shall describe how scattered initiatives led

to “random” mobility of these University artefacts and give an account of the present situation

of the Nançay heritage.


Jean Davoigneau works at the Mission de l’Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, Direction générale

des patrimoines at the French Ministry of Culture. He participated with Françoise Le Guet Tully to the

inventory of the astronomical heritage in French observatories.

Françoise Le Guet Tully is Astronome honoraire of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur at Nice. She

participated with Jean Davoigneau to the inventory of the astronomical heritage in French observatories.

49


COLLECTION OF THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM UTRECHT

ON THE MOVE

P. H. Lambers

Curator of Natural History and Science collection, University Museum Utrecht,

Lange Nieuwstraat 106, 3512 PN Utrecht, NL

Keywords: mobility of collection, musealisation, object loan

Abstract

Th e University Museum Utrecht welcomes the mobility of its rich collection, e.g., exhibitions of

objects outside the context of the museum and its activities. Th is helps to reach an even broader

audience, and further develop the academic, historic and cultural relevance of the collection.

Examples are the collection of materia medica exhibited at the Botanical Garden at the Utrecht

Science Park (USP), and mathematical plaster models as part of a travelling exhibit promoting

mathematics. Th ere are plans to exhibit a collection for teaching and promotion purposes in

the new or renovated buildings at the USP. Many objects are on long- or short-term display

in museums nationwide and there is constant demand for loan of objects for non-museum

purposes such as documentaries or television programs.

Over the years we have gained experience in very diverse cases. Partners outside the museum

fi eld often do not realise that musealisation of objects implies a diff erent approach than that

applied to current teaching aids, research instruments or objects. E.g., display conditions,

transport, insurance, object handling are important issues that are often not taken into account.

I will present and discuss the way we handled the diverse issues we encountered and our still

developing policy on this.

Biographical Note:

Paul Lambers has a doctorate in paleontology and is curator in natural history and science collections

of the University Museum Utrecht. His research interests are the systematics and evolution of Mesozoic

fi shes, and history of natural history and science collections.

50


JUST LIKE THE REAL THING? THE INFLATABLE MUSEUM,

OUTREACH AND AUTHENTICITY

J. Ridley

Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

[email protected]

Keywords: education, outreach, authenticity, environment

Abstract

With a collection of 4.5 million objects and specimens, Manchester Museum is the largest

university museum in the UK. Th e Museum’s learning programme, which is designed to

both enrich the curriculum, and introduce young people to Th e University of Manchester in

an accessible and stimulating manner, has expanded to welcome over 30,000 pupils annually.

However, demand for the learning off er continues to grow beyond the Museum’s capacity, with

the programme currently oversubscribed by 11,000 pupil places.

Developed in order to both increase capacity within the programme, and extend Manchester

Museum’s commitment to engaging hard-to-reach communities, 2016 saw the launch of the

Infl atable Museum. A portable learning environment designed to bring the wonder of the

Museum to a school setting, the Infl atable Museum is an outreach innovation that allows for

delivery of immersive, object-driven workshops in diverse non-museum contexts.

Th e Infl atable Museum has been very well received by teachers and pupils alike, to the extent

that even regularly visiting teachers are choosing it in preference to a Museum visit. Th e

implications of such a trend cannot be downplayed. What do teachers truly value in a museum

experience? And what can this tell us about the authenticity of the built museum environment?

Biographical Note:

Jack Ridley is infl atable museum coordinator at Manchester Museum, part of Th e University of

Manchester. He has an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Manchester and

a background in history. He is interested in widening participation and social responsibility in a museum

context.

51


TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS AS A METHOD OF PROMOTION

OF UNIVERSITY SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE

M. Kluza

Jagiellonian University Museum, Jagiellonska 15, Krakow, 31-010, Poland

Keywords: Travelling exhibitions, interactive exhibitions, popularization of science

Abstract

For more than 10 years, Jagiellonian University Museum has been lending objects to or

organizing travelling exhibitions in many Polish museums, universities and other types of

cultural institutions. More than 90 such exhibitions, which attracted almost 350 000 visitors, have

been organized as of now. Most of them were interactive exhibitions focused on popularization

of science. Th ey served for several years in our museum and were transformed into a mobile

science center. A second kind of exhibition is focused on the history of astronomy based on

the Museum’s temporarily exhibitions. A third type of exhibition is based on the collection of

historical scientifi c instruments and is organized outside the University.

It is sure that travelling exhibitions are a good way of popularization of science. But is it also

a promotion of the University and its heritage? Th e paper will try to fi nd answers for this

question.

Biographical Note:

Maciej Kluza, Ph. D. author of several interactive exhibitions dealing with physics, mathematics and

biology, curator of the collection of historical scientifi c instruments. Research fi elds: history of physics,

history of scientifi c instruments’ production in Poland, history of Science and Technology Museums in

Poland.

52


MOBILITY TO PREVENT, COLLECT AND INTEGRATE

I. Mitrovic, D. Mitrovic

University of Belgrade, Faculty of sport and physical education,

Blagoja Parovica 156, Belgrade, 11030, Serbia

[email protected]

Keywords: intra muros, extra muros, strategy, integration

Abstract

For the last 17 years, the Museum of sport of the University of Belgrade is without permanent

exhibition space. Th e space was fl ooded and the area was eventually reconstructed, then the

rooms were given to other faculty services. Hence, in the period from 2000 to 2017 the collections

faced three diff erent kinds of mobility. Th e fi rst one was tactical, and has happened intra muros ,

where collections were literally dragged and moved from place to place. Th is was done in order

to save the collections from the damage caused by water. Th e second mobility was a strategic

one and extra muros. Chosen artefacts were displayed at various sport events ensuring at the

same time acquisition of new objects, media coverage and support from top athletes and sport

fans. Th is was a collective mobility. Finally and strategically there is an integrative mobility. Th e

museum started to restore its function within the Faculty, creating activities and events that

integrate involvement of both academic and sport communities. As long as our objects move,

the Museum of sport lives.

Biographical Note:

Ivana Mitrovic works as a curator at the Museum of Sport and is very active in eff orts to preserve and

promote the academic heritage of University of Belgrade. Th e focus of her research is the history of sport

sciences and sport related heritage.

Darko Mitrovic is a professor at the Faculty of sport and physical education and the director of the

Museum of sport. His main research interests encompasses rowing sports along with organization and

administration in sports.

53


MOVING PROPS, PLACES AND PEOPLE. CHALLENGES

AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR A DECENTRALIZED

UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

G. Vanpaemel

KU Leuven, Blijde Inkomststraat 21 bus 3307, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

[email protected]

Keywords: University buildings, decentralized museum, collection policies, architectural heritage

Abstract

Th e university of Leuven will celebrate its 600th anniversary in 2025. It has no university

museum, and has until now but a limited infrastructure to exhibit its heritage. However, the link

between town and gown is visible throughout the city. In particular, university buildings, both

old and new, provide telling landmarks and constitute an attractive ensemble of architectural

heritage.

To make the most use of its unique building heritage, the university is now working out an

innovative model for a decentralized university museum, which provides public access to

academic spaces and uses heritage within diff erentiated frames of presentation. Th is means

moving collections and staff to the allocated spaces, and moving visitors around the city. It

also entails creating bonds between the new museum spaces (located in historical ‘abandoned’

buildings) and the community of researchers, who for the most part have moved outside of the

inner city.

Th e paper will put some critical refl ections on the decentralized format up for discussion. It

will address the opportunities for implementing architectural heritage as part of a university

museum and its implications for the presentation of academic collections.

Biographical Note:

Geert Vanpaemel is professor for history of science and chairperson of the Commission for Academic

Heritage of the KU Leuven. He is a member of the Flemish Interuniversity Platform for Academic

Heritage (http://academischerfgoed.be).

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THE MARSEILLE OBSERVATORY COLLECTION

A CASE STUDY OF MOBILITY

J. Caplana

aLAM, 38 rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie, 13388 Marseille cedex 13, France

[email protected]

Keywords: Observatory, astronomy, instruments

Abstract

Th e astronomy collection of the Marseille Observatory—the potential contents of a fi ne

museum—constitutes a valuable resource for historical research.

In 2009-2010, after the Observatory’s closure, much of the collection underwent mobility—for

my temporary exhibition, Telescopium, at the Natural History Museums in Marseille and then

Bourges. Many people viewed rare items and learned about the history and use of the instrument

that revolutionised astronomy. Th is was carried out with precautions, but signifi cant diffi culty,

danger and expense.

Th at experience showed that such mobility should remain an exception, and that the collection

needs a permanent exhibition area and stores. Specifi c recommendations for these were made

by an international committee in 2011. Th ese have been ignored by the University of Aix-

Marseille.

Today the collection, homeless, is threatened with another mobility. Items are transported

carelessly, undocumented, to serve essentially as decoration. Th e University has no offi cial

museums and, since last year, no curator to impose recognized best practices. Heritage is

valued essentially for public relations. Th is collection, long ignored but safe, is now in danger.

Items are proposed for loans and outreach, under unsatisfactory conditions. Less eye-catching

but nevertheless important material, in insecure storage, is overlooked and dispersed.

Is there a solution?

Biographical Note:

James Caplan studied physics at the University of Chicago and obtained a PhD in astronomy from

Northwestern University before moving to the Marseille Observatory for research on the interstellar

medium (using Fabry-Perot interferometers), and now the history of astronomical instrumentation. He

is an astronomer emeritus at the University of Aix-Marseille.

55


THE PLASTER CAST COLLECTION OF STRASBOURG

AND ITS HISTORY

C. Gutter

Université de Strasbourg, 9, place de l’Université, Strasbourg, 67000, France

[email protected]

Abstract

After the Franco-German War in 1870-71, Strasbourg has been conquered by the German

Reich under William II. In order to show the superiority of the German Empire over France,

William II decided to extend the city by building a whole new neighbourhood called “Neustadt”

(new city). Th e heart of this « Neustadt » was a very important university, in which all the main

disciplines were represented. Among them, archaeology had a prevailing place, since the whole

“Universitary Palace” was built to host a collection of 1450 plaster casts, retracing the whole

evolution and history of antique art, and mainly focusing on Greek art, very popular at the time.

Th e collection remained relatively stable until the Second World War, when some plasters

started to disappear. At this time, the whole collection was put aside in a basement, loosing its

greatness of the past. Th e plasters were strongly impacted by this shifting. Indeed, the weather,

and hygrometric conditions in the basement were very diff erent from those on the fi rst fl oor of

the Universitary Palace, and unfortunately absolutely unadapted to the preservation of plasters,

which were consequently damaged.

But what does the mobility of the cast collection of Strasbourg reveal regarding the status of the

collection and the evolution of the University of Strasbourg during the 20th century?

As a traditional German Lehrapparat, we know that it was highly estimated under the

government of the Second Reich, and thanks to several written sources, we also know that the

museum stayed open to visitors between 1918 and 1939, during the French period. Th e huge

mystery still surrounding the collection concerns the exact date of its move. According to the

common memory, the collection was put aside around 1939 when the Nazis came to power.

Unfortunately, no written document can confi rm this hypothesis, which also makes the reasons

of the removal quite obscure.

Nevertheless, this shifting from the fi rst fl oor to a “basement” evokes an important change in

the status of the collection at the time, that we will try to explain, following the history of the

collection and its importance.

Biographical Note:

Coline Gutter, founder member of the Association des Amis du Musée Adolf Michaelis, works on the

collection of plasters of the Classical Archaeology Department.

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THE MOBILITY OF INFORMATIVE HERITAGE OF PUBLIC

HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS THROUGH OPEN ACCESS

AND PATRIMONIALIZATION

J. M. Palma Peña

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, México, 04510, México City.

[email protected]

Keywords: Informative Heritage, Open Access, Scholarly Publications, Public Higher Education

Institutions

Abstract

Th e informative heritage of public higher education institutions is conformed by scholarly

publications in the humanities and social sciences of these institutions; such conceptualization

is supported by the objectives, particularities and values with which those publications are

traditionally developed. A maxim of informative heritage is that what is not known cannot be

valued and used, so that according to the trends on scientifi c communication and information

mobility, open access is a basic groundwork for such a hypothesis. Open access consists of

scholarly information made publicly available freely and openly, and there is thus a clear

relationship between open access and informative heritage for visibility, mobility and access.

Th is paper is composed of three sections: fi rst, it presents the theoretical elements of the

informative heritage of public higher education institutions; secondly, it describes the theoretical

and practical connections between open access and informative heritage; and third, it discusses

the practical mobility of the patrimonialization in university libraries of public higher education

institutions. Th e patrimonialization of academic publications in open access by university

libraries of public higher education institutions is proposed as a relevant practice, based on the

core activities of university library specialists such as: collection development, organization of

information and information services.

Biographical Note:

Juan Miguel Palma Peña is an academic in HUMANINDEX Academic Information System of the

Humanities Coordination, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Professor in Library

Science and Information Studies of the System of Open University and Distance Education, UNAM.

He is a PhD Student in Library and Information Studies since 2014. His thesis project is Informative

Heritage of Public Higher Education Institutions in Open Access: Institutionalization and Proposal.

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59


THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE,

UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC

S.R. Trifunović, I. D. Radojević, S. M. Vasić

University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science, Radoja Domanovića 12, Kragujevac, 34000,

Republic of Serbia

[email protected]

Keywords: Faculty of Science, monument of culture, scientifi c collections

Abstract

Faculty of Science of the University of Kragujevac is located at Radoja Domanovića 12. Th e

activities of the Faculty are performed in three buildings, one of which is listed as a state-protected

monument of culture. Th e main building, primarily used by the Teacher Training College, was

built in 1926 in Art Deco style. Th e Faculty offi cially commenced utilizing of the building in

1972. Botanical Gardens and related objects belonging to the Faculty have been included into

the National Cultural Heritage List. Modern classrooms, laboratories, library and the aquarium

are all situated in the main building, with the latter one spreading over 500 sqm and off ering

a comprehensive publicly available collection of freshwater organisms. It was the fi rst public

aquarium to open in Serbia. Th e Faculty has valuable and diverse collections of animate and

inanimate objects: rocks, skulls, insects, fungi and plants, as well as the observatory. Publishing

activity at the Faculty of Science is on the upswing. Th ree journals are of particular importance,

among which is the internationally recognized MATCH as a highly-ranked scientifi c journal.

Th e mingling of traditional facilities and new technologies provides recognition for the Faculty.

Generations of students enable the Faculty to move forward.


PhD Srećko R. Trifunović is a full professor of Chemistry, appointed for General, Inorganic and

Bioinorganic Chemistry. Presently, he holds a position of Dean of the Faculty of Science in Kragujevac.

For years, he has been the project leader in many scientifi c research teams dealing with the preparation

of novel bioactive substances and their preclinical testing.

PhD Ivana D. Radojević is working as an Assistant Research Professor of Biological Sciences on projects

and is active in teaching on all levels of study. She has published scientifi c papers in ISI listed journals.

Sava M. Vasić is Phd student in Microbiology, working as a Research Assistant on project of preclinical

testing of bioactive substances. He is experimenting in various fi elds and has published scientifi c papers

in ISI listed journals.

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COLLECTIONS AND MUSEUMS

OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE:

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

J. Jovanović Simića

aMuseum of Science and Technology, Skender-begova 51, 11000 Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

[email protected]

Keywords: collection, museum, School of Medicine, medical museology

Abstract

Founded in 1920, Belgrade University Faculty of Medicineis the oldest medical school in

Serbia. Th e creation of teaching collections began the same year. Th e fi rst one was formed at

the Institute of Anatomy. Over the years, collections and museums were foundedwithin most

institutes and clinics. Apartfrom the short history of their origin, development or dissolving,

the paper presents the modes of management of the collections and museums that still exist. In

this respect, it is possible to diff erentiate four basic models:a) collection / museum still exists

and is used in teaching; b) collection / museum exists and is used in research; c) collection /

museum was disbanded / does not exist; d) collection / museum was given to the institution for

heritage protection (museum). Museological protection is the fi rstand the most urgent step to

be taken. It is a prerequisite for their mobility - better visibility (professional and general public),

research and consideration (from scientifi c, historical, ethical, artistic and other aspects) and

communication (through exhibitions, workshops, teachingetc.).Th e use of some collections will

be shown through three exhibitions organised bythe Museum of Science and Technology.

Biographical Note:

Jelena Jovanović Simić, MD, PhD (Musealisation of the history of medicine in Serbia, University of

Belgrade, 2015), is a curator and researcher in the fi elds of medical museology, protection of cultural

heritage and history of medicine. She is the author of two permanent and six thematic exhibitions at the

Museum of Science and Technology.

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PREVENTIVE PROTECTION OF PHARMACEUTICAL CULTURAL

AND HISTORIC HERITAGE

J. Manojlović¹, M. Mirić¹, D. Krajnović¹

¹University of Belgrade, Faculty of Pharmacy, VojvodeStepe 450, Belgrade, 11221, Serbia

[email protected]

Keywords: museum, preventive protection, pharmacy

Abstract

Th e Museum of the History of Pharmacy at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, has

a complex historical collection, highly signifi cant for the historical development of pharmacy in

Serbia and the region. Part of the collection consists of a library set containing books from the

16th to the 20th century.

Th e general state of the collection demanded basic conservationon at least a small part of it.

Th e most valuable part of the collection is the oldest titles, about forty of them, which were

disinfected due to microbiological threats. Conservation and restorationsteps were taken

for seven books, most of which date back to the 16th and 17th centuries. Th e project included

disinfecting, mechanical cleaning, book block untying, stain removal, washing, restoration

of missing pieces, leaf reinforcement, pressing and restoration of book covers. Th e work was

completed with the help of the Serbian National Library’s team of experts from the Central

Laboratory of Conservation.

With preventive protection we have created the right research conditions for current and

upcoming generations. With the steps we have taken, we have ensured good conditions for the

preservation of a valuable old and rare library collection.


Jelena Manojlović, MSc Pharm, is employed as a research assistant at the Department of Social

Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Legislation, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade. She has shown

interest in all aspects of history of pharmacy, but her major interests are history of pharmaceutical

deontology, pharmacopoeias, drugs, and dosage forms.

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UNIVERSITY HERITAGE IN NEW MEDIA

A. Turajlić

MS art history; curator, Zlatiborska 44-a, Pančevo, 26000, Serbia

[email protected]

Keywords: university, heritage, new media, art history

Abstract

Art history as a science that researches heritage is now challenged with new social media,

which had spread really fast and became a part of everyday life. Many well known institution

have been using it for a long period of time, but there are always diff erent ways of presenting

heritage. Nowadays people like to interact with everything, the same goes with heritage. We all

like things that we feel connected to, so that is now a challenge for curators and art historians

in presenting heritage.

While using social media, other media could also be used to interact in presenting more ideas

at once, or connecting similar ideas. My colleague and I created a video (Learning Skating

Underground) to present heritage of Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, and by that act we

“dislocated” it and gave it more of an active role. Th ere are a lot of people that were a part of this

heritage, but they are not aware of it, so we are trying to present it to them as well in the new

light. Making this video shows how this kind of cultural heritage could be “re-activated”. Th is

video is just a one example of many that we are trying to present by using social media.

* Th is poster is connected with Olivera Erić’s presentation, since we collaborated on this project


Adrijana Turajlić, MS art historian and curator, researches graffi ti and street art; power of social media

and its importance to art history; presenting heritage on new communication platforms

63


THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING THE COLLECTION OF ROCKS

AND MINERALS AT THE FACULTY OF MINING AND GEOLOGY

A. Zdravkovića, V. Matovića

aFaculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade, Djusina 7, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

[email protected]

Keywords: university collection, geoheritage, preservation, educational purpose

Abstract

Th e Collection of rocks and minerals of the Faculty of mining and geology - University of Belgrade,

is acultural heritage resource accessible to all, whose most important collections are permanently

protected as in 2005 they became part of the inventory of the geoheritage of Serbia.

Samples of rocks and minerals, contained in University collection, were collected from the very

beginning of the development of geological science in Serbia (1880).Since then, enriched with

new specimens, the collection has changed seats and owners several times.

Th e collection is of great importance, not only as a basis for expert examination and education,

but also as material evidence of the past, especially when one takes into account that many sites

from which the samples were collected, are inaccessible today due to the impact of both natural

processes and human activities.Educational or research purpose was the cause for the transfer

of geological samples in warehouses and museums. It can be seen that the human factor in

this aspect played an important role of preservation, while on the other hand, many factors

in the new environment were neglectedwhich lead to deterioration of samples.In addition,

unintentional destruction during the two world wars led to a partial damage (Gift collection of

Baron Herder from 1835) or complete disappearance of some important collections(meteorite

collection formed by Josif Pančić).Unfortunately, the case of Collection of rocks and minerals

is not a unique case of University collections, which shows that between positive and negative

actions over time, however, there is a balance.

Given that geological collections are a signifi cant source of research facilities that are essential

for the purposes of cultural and educational institutions and industry, it is necessary to include

all processes that provide long-term conservation of geological samples for their subsequent use.

Biographical notes:

Vesna Matović is Associate professor at the Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Faculty

of Mining and Geology - University of Belgrade.Her major disciplines are Applied petrography,

Environmental Mineralogy, Petrology of sedimentary rocks. Th e main objective is related to the study of

natural stone and stone aggregates.

Alena Zdravković is curator in the Collection of rocks and minerals, Research associate and a PhD

student in mineralogyat the Faculty of Mining and Geology. Her work is currently focused on the

Environmental Mineralogy. She created a signifi cant exibition, Geology Treasure of Serbia“ in 2014.

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DISPLAY OF UNIVERSITY HERITAGE

FROM THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY IN BELGRADE

T. B. Stanisavljević

University library “Svetozar Markovic”, Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 71, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia

[email protected]

Keywords: University library “Svetozar Markovic”, university heritage, Joca Vujic, preservation

Abstract

As a cultural institution, the University Library “Svetozar Marković” in Belgrade has the

extremely important task and duty to collect, preserve and provide use of the University’s

heritage. Th is paper presents the part of Belgrad University’s heritage, which a noble benefactor,

Joca Vujić bequeathed to the University of Belgrade to keep it stored in our Library . Vujić wrote

a letter to the Rector of the University about his legacy to explain his decision. Namely, Vujuć

gave his personal library and the collection of archival documents to the Library, leaving out

what he considered unimportant for Serbian science and culture. Th ese were the documents

about his hometown Senta or about his family. In 2014 the Ministry of Culture and Information

proclaimed the archival and personal collection of Joca Vujuć cultural heritage of great

importance at the suggestion of the Board of Directors of the National Library of Serbia. On the

one hand, the collection of Joca Vujuć is precious cultural heritage and on the other hand it is

university heritage with great scientifi c potential for future research.

Biographical Note:

Tatjana Brzulović Stanisavljević (1965), doctor of philological sciences, works at the University Library

“Svetozar Marković” in Belgrade as the Head of the Acquisition and Cataloguing Division. She has

actively participated in several projects carried out at the University Library. She deals with copyright

in librarianship and has actively participated in librarians’ professional development activities such as

accredited seminars, lectures and workshops. Tatjana is interested in archival material, manuscripts

and letters which she has been exploring for several years. She regularly publishes papers in national

and international scientifi c and expert periodicals and on the humanities portal „Kulturni heroj“. She

published two books with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of

Serbia.

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MOANA, MOBILITY AND THE MAKING OF MEANING

A. Rowan Gard

University of St Andrews, 71 North Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL United Kingdom

[email protected]

Keywords: Museum collections, climate change, Pacifi c art

Abstract

Th e Moana—Th e Rising of the Sea project at the University of St Andrews was presented in

partnership with the Universities of Aberdeen, Bergen and the South Pacifi c, and National

Museums Scotland. Moana was a powerful stage production, funded by the European Union,

focusing on climate change in the Pacifi c and underscored with original Pacifi c music and dance.

Exhibits and interactive activities designed to enhance the Moana educational experience,

spanned three fl oors and explored the natural and cultural forces that have shaped the islands

of Melanesia and Polynesia today. Happily, the collaborative energies, dynamic displays and

interdisciplinary approach of the Moana project was recognised with a shortlisting for a UK

Times Higher Education’s 2016 Excellence and Innovation in the Arts Award. Consequently,

Moana serves as a powerful case-study in using a creative, collaborative and an interdisciplinary

approach in combination with museum collections to foster meaningful audience engagement

with one of the most imperative issues of our lifetime.

Biographical Note:

Rowan Gard is a doctoral candidate at the University of St Andrews. Previously, she has held management

positions with Bishop Museum—the Hawai’i State Museum of Cultural and Natural History, Museum of

the University of St Andrews and at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California,

Berkeley.

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MOBILITY OF COLLECTIONS IN ARAUCANÍA CHILENA:

THE EFFECTS OF WORKING IN NETWORK

Godoy, G. Marcelo, Weil G., Karin

Dirección Museológica, Universidad Austral de Chile, Postal code 5090000-Valdivia, Chile

[email protected]

Keywords: Mobility, network, collection, local museum

Abstract

In social sciences, mobility refers to the way in which humans move around and establish a

territory, where the path becomes meaningful through the social networks that shelter the

traveler. Networks are the fundamental component for the circulation of ideas, goods and

people. Our proposal aims to describe and refl ect upon the work of the network of museums

and cultural centers of the Los Ríos region in the South of Chile and its contribution to the

mobility of collections for heritage education.

Five years ago, for the International Museum Day, various museums of the region set out to

resolve their needs and project a collective work for the future. During 2016 we collectively

designed and carried out the exhibition “Portraits and Stories of a Territory”. Th e goal of this

exhibition is to present the regional history through local museums. To make this happen, we

proposed that each museum contribute to the museographic account with signifi cant objects

from its collections. Th e outcome of this collective eff ort became an exhibition that has so far

been in more than half of the 25 museums that make up the network.

With the mobility of the local museums’ collections, we contribute to the understanding of the

territory, the strengthening of our networks and the social valuing of the museum work. Th e

mobility of collections has allowed us to build and share knowledge, enabling the consolidation

of the museums in their territories and communities.

Biographical Note:

Anthropologists with postgraduate studies in history and management. Our 15 years of professional

experience with university museums includes heritage collection research and education, and regional

heritage management. We also teach undergraduate and graduate courses and serve the territory

through consulting, technical assistance and networking.

67


GALILEO POLITECNICO

FROM THE STARS TO APPLIED SCIENCES

E. Angelinia, M. Bongiovannib, A. Goric

aDip. di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24,

Torino, 10129, ItalybArea Bibliotecaria e Museale, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino, 10129, Italy

cMuseo Galileo, Piazza dei Giudici 1, Firenze, 50122, Italy

[email protected]

Keywords: Joint exhibition, Museo Galileo, Replicas, Didactics

Abstract

Th e exhibition “Galileo al Politecnico” is the fi rst interesting result of a collaboration between

the Department of Applied Science and Technology of the Politecnico di Torino (DISAT),

the Museo Galileo of Florence and the Museum of the Politecnico di Torino. Th e exhibition

presents a series of “Galilean replicas” of scientifi c instruments utilized as educational material

at the Museo Galileo of Florence.

With Galileo Galilei, science changed from a qualitative observation of nature and entered a

new innovative dimension, in which the experiment became the focal point of the scientifi c

method. Since the time of this outstanding scientist, developments in the technology of scientifi c

instrumentation have accompanied every step of the discovery of the world around us.

Unique in the Italian landscape, the Museo Galileo brings together a prestigious collection of

scientifi c instruments, fruit of the passion for science that characterized both the Medici and

Lorena families in nearly fi ve centuries of history. Th e Educational Section of the Museum

promotes the dissemination of knowledge experimenting through an informal “approach”

to teaching, emphasizing the interactivity between the museum staff and the public. Th e

instruments on display, result of the skillful and passionate conservation work of the Museum’s

Conservation Laboratory, are the ones used at the Museo Galileo during educational visits and

activities.

Th e exhibition showed some of the most important discoveries achieved by Galileo, followed

by a series of scientifi c devices studied by some of his disciples or other researchers after him.

A number of scientifi c instruments from the historical collections of DISAT completed the

exhibition. Th ey were exhibited in a thematic and chronological sequence, related to diff erent

research fi elds, from optics to electricity, from mechanics to chemistry. Th ey off ered an occasion

of constructive revisitation of the past for the Politecnico’s students and for the broad public.

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UNIVERSITY HERITAGE OF THE FINE ARTS FACULTY OF SEVILLE

M. D. Ruiz de Lacanal Ruiz-Mateos

Fine Arts Faculty, University Seville, Calle Laraña s/n. Seville, Spain

[email protected]

Keywords: fi ne arts collection, historical perspective, intangible heritage, preservation, promotion

Abstract

Th e University of Seville has participated in the previous meetings of Universeum held in

Athens (2015) and Amsterdam (2016), with poster presentation of its collections and museums,

including the Museum of the History of Pharmacy, the Museum of Geology, Gypsoteca, the

Herbarium and the Museum of Pedagogy, as well as its archives and libraries. In this tour of the

heritage of diff erent faculties of the university (Pharmacy, Geology, Biology, Pedagogy, History

of Art, etc.), the Faculty of Fine Arts was not represented.

At the meeting in Belgrade we will now present the collections of fi ne arts, emphasizing on their

heritage and their functions. First, we will focus on the historical perspective, explaining how

the material collections, including monuments, paintings, drawings, prints, contemporary art

and sculptures were formed. We will discuss the Intangible heritage, the techniques, procedures

and knowledge, as well as the Institutions involved, including the archives, libraries, and the

Pantheon of Illustrious Sevillians. We will then turn towards the preservation of the collections

and their presentation in cultural projects, and raise questions related to the promotion of

university heritage. Th ese will include aspects of preventive conservation, restoration, temporary

or permanent exhibitions, as well as education and dissemination.

Biographical notes

María Dolores Ruiz de Lacanal teaches Conservation and Restauration Heritage at the Faculty of Fine

Arts, has coordinated the Meeting of Museums and Collections of the University of Seville since 2014,

and has published Colecciones Educativas de la Universidad de Sevilla (2015). She is also vice president

of GrupoEspañol I.I.C. Her research topics include museums, collections, university heritage, history of

conservation and restauration, and cultural heritage.

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THE MUSEUM OF MERCEOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BARI

V. Montenegroa, A. Garuccioab

aSistema Museale di Ateneo dell’Università di Bari, Via Celso Ulpiani 27, Bari, 70026, ItalybDipartimento di Fisica, Via Amendola 172, 70124, Italy

[email protected]

Keywords: Merceology, Commidity Science, cataloguing, new exibition

Abstract

Th e Museum of Merceology of the University of Bari was instituted in 1886 at the Royal High

School of Commerce of Bari. Together with the merceology laboratory, it provided valuable

assistance to the teaching of the commodity science and to local entrepreneurs, through the

variety of goods that were exposed, which allowed to recognize and compare the goods with

the “standard” samples.

In 1935 the High Schools of Commerce in Italy became Faculty of Economy and Commerce.

Th e Museum lost its original venue and arrangement which for forty years gave it a preeminent

role in business studies in Bari and in the economic development of the territory. At a later time,

World War II took its toll on the Museum but above all ,the lack of interest during the post war

reconstruction got it turned down. Indeed,, after the second war, the Museum lost its function

in teaching and research of commodity science, as is was the case for most Italian museums

of merceology, since they were no longer able to keep up with new technologies which were

applied to the industrial process.

Currently the Museum is closed to the public. A narrow space is used to showcase the collections

which are exposed on tables and shelves, but the University of Bari has a project of renovation

of exhibition and moving it into new spaces, together with a systematic process of cataloguing

and restoration of the existing items.

Biographical Notes:

Vincenza Montenegro graduated in natural science, with training in education and museum didactic

and the protection of natural areas. A Doctor of philosophy in history of science with a research interest

on museums and historic scientifi c collections of the University of Bari, she is part of the staff of the

museum system of University of Bari (SiMA). She is a technical and scientifi c support to museums and

carries out didactic and educational activities for students and visitors.

Augusto Garuccio is full Professor of didactics and history of physics at University of Bari, Director of

interuniversity center for history of science, president of scientifi c committee of the museum system of

University of Bari (SiMA). Primary research interests are history of modern physics, management of

university museums, quantum entanglement.

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SAVING THE AGRICULTURAL COLLECTION

OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI

S. Hakkarainen

Helsinki University Museum, P.O. Box 3, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland

[email protected]

Keywords: Mould, disaster response, ethnological collections, conservation

Abstract

Due to burst sewer pipes, the Museum of Agriculture had a massive mould infestation, which

was discovered in January 2016. Although closed to the public since 2012, the building still

housed an important collection of some 2500 objects as well as photos, books and archival

materials. Together with the university’s Centre for Properties and Facilities the Helsinki

University Museum started a large-scale project to save the collection. Th is involved building a

temporary structure where the objects could be cleaned mechanically, treated with appropriate

solvents and subjected to peroxide decontamination and ultraviolet radiation. Powered air-

purifying respirators and protective clothes were used to protect the people working with the

contaminated objects.

All the objects were photographed and decisions made about their fate one by one. About 1000

objects were discarded due to their bad condition, lack of context information etc. Th e objects

thus chosen to be saved were cleaned, photographed again and catalogued. Th ey were then

packed using acid-free materials and transported to a temporary storage. A team of six museum

professionals and a conservator were hired to do the hands-on work, which was coordinated by

the Helsinki University Museum’s project planner together with the head of collections.


Susanna Hakkarainen works as a project planner in the Helsinki University Museum. She’s the main

user of the museum’s information system, Akseli. For most of 2016 she coordinated the eff orts to save

the Agricultural Collection of the University of Helsinki. Research interests: student life and traditions,

history of medicine etc.

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A PARTECIPATORY APPROACH TO UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS:

THE PROPOSAL OF “MU.VE.RE.MUSEI SCIENTIFICI

VENETI IN RETE”

C. Marin

CAM – University of Padova via Orto Botanico 15, Padova, 35122, Italy

[email protected]

Keywords: Partecipatory Museum, Audience Engagement, Digital Collections, New Technologies

Abstract

Th e university museums in the face of audience engagement challenge: how to promote the

cultural heritage beyond the narrow circle of scholars? What tools can reach and engage the

younger generation in the commitment to conservation and enhancement of the collections?

In a more complex network system between Venetian Scientifi c Museums, Mu.Ve.Re. project

is involved in testing an innovative approach to the communication of Padova University’s

collections, as a bottom-up process: we invite visitors to create content related to collections

(photos, video, texts) and to share them on social networks and on our website; here the

materials created by curators, scholars and ordinary people are made available to others with

CC licence and can be used for research and teaching; we also off ered several free tools for their

customization and the creation of additional multimedia content, which in turn can be shared.

Th us engages a virtuous circle that increases the online presence of the museum and its ranking,

and engage ordinary visitors in the promotion of our cultural heritage. Finally the interactions

monitoring allows to provide guidance to curators on the public expectations, encouraging

them to undertake new researches and new interaction process.

Biographical Note:

Chiara Marin is research fellow at the CAM (Padova University Centre for Museums), teaching

collaborator in museology at the Department of Cultural Heritage in Padova and ICOM member. Her

interests are turning to studies on visitors and to the promotion of cultural heritage through the use of

new technologies.

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SPREADING CULTURE THROUGH THE WEB 2.0

THE EXAMPLE OF THE JALÓN ÁNGEL’S ARCHIVE

M.T. Aliciaa, I-H. Pilarb

a Archivo Jalón Ángel / Universidad San Jorge, Edifi cio de Rectorado,

Universidad San Jorge, Campus Universitario Villanueva de Gállego, Autovía A-23 Zaragoza - Huesca,

Km. 299, 50830 - Villanueva de Gállego – Zaragoza (SPAIN)

[email protected] Facultad de Comunicación y Ciencias Sociales, Edifi cio Jalón Ángel, Universidad San Jorge, Campus

Universitario Villanueva de Gállego, Autovía A-23 Zaragoza - Huesca, Km. 299,

50830 - Villanueva de Gállego – Zaragoza (SPAIN)

[email protected]

Keywords: social media, digital communication, digital heritage, culture diff usion

Abstract

Cultural industries are constantly developing in the use and application of digital issues to

connect with the public. Cultural enterprises make digital projects to break down barriers and

connect with the entire society. Museums, art galleries, archives and libraries are innovating in

the relationship between them and the public through the internet, but not all of them have a

previous strategic plan. Jalón Ángel’s photographic archive has made a strategic communication

plan focused on the social media and content dissemination through the 2.0 web. Th is plan

includes the ultimate aims, the success indicators, the potential public, arguments and counter-

arguments, actions and an activity calendar. Th e research and design of the plan has resulted in

some social media actions where spread the activities of the archive and other type of information

(including photography of Jalón Ángel, since the 30’s around Europe). On the other hand, this

plan pushes the link between the archive and the San Jorge’s university (where the archive is

located), the San Valero group (owner of the archive) and society, culture, history and heritage.


Alicia Mellén-Tomás: Graduated in journalism and Master’s Degree in corporate communications at

San Jorge’s University. She specialized in digital communication. Actually, she works like documentary

and community manager in Jalón Angel’s Photographic Archive. Research interests: Cultural industries

and digital communication; new technologies and heritage; cultural journalism.

Pilar Irala-Hortal: D. in Art History, Master’s Degree in the management of the cultural heritage and

director of Jalón Angel’s Photography Archive. She is teaching visual culture, contemporary art and

photography at San Jorge’s University. Research interest: management and preservation of cultural

heritage; new technologies and heritage; heritage and society.

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TOWARDS A PERCEPTUAL INTEGRATION

OF CATALOGING RECORDS

R. Francescangelia, A. Garuccioab

a Sistema Museale di Ateneo - Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Via Celso Ulpiani 27, Bari, 70026, Italy

bDipartimento di Fisica, Via Amendola 172, 70124, [email protected]

Keywords: Visually impaired, historical-scientifi c heritage, cataloguing, tactile

Abstract

Th e Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Bari, off ers active guided tours dedicated to

visually impaired visitors to enjoy the historical-scientifi c heritage preserved in it: fossils, rocks,

minerals, and scientifi c tools. Since the late 1990s, activities have been explored in collaboration

with an educational center for visually impaired people to make exibitions fully accessible to

those who have a diff erent perception of the environment,.

For the realization of these museum tours for visually impaired, both in the mineralogical-

petrographic and in the paleontological section, innovative techniques of 3D prototyping

have been adopted for the duplication of objects that, for conservative issues, may not be

inserted into tactile path. Th e 3D technologies broaden the possibilities of tactile exploration

off ered to visitors and thus contribute to the imaginary reconstruction of either the cultural

heritage in the museums and the environment in which it lived, in the case of natural samples.

Th e results of these experiments were collected in the book “Museum in the dark: museum

educational experiments for the visually impaired,” published in 2010 by an specialized editor

(F.A.L. VISION), in which the traditional printed text is supplemented by Braille translation.

Th e experience gained in these years have suggested the opportunity to consider the inclusion

in the cataloguing records of fi elds relating to size, shape and tactile feeling of surfaces, for a

description of the objects helpful to their use in a tactile way.

Biographical Notes:

Ruggero Francescangeli is Director of the museum system of University of Bari Aldo Moro, and

technical coordinator of the university earth science museum. For several years he is dealing with

cataloguing standards, research on the collections and educational paths for scientifi c museology,

dedicated to school pupils and visually impaired people.

Augusto Garuccio is full Professor of didactics and history of physics at University of Bari, Director of

interuniversity center for history of science, and President of scientifi c committee of the museum system

of University of Bari (SiMA). Primary research interests are history of modern physics, management of

university museums, and quantum entanglement.

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THE SUDAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTION

OF THE HUMBOLDTUNIVERSITÄT BERLIN

AND ITS EAST GERMAN HERITAGE

Y. Reimers

Humboldt-Universität Berlin / Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Invalidenstr. 43,

Berlin, 10115, Germany

[email protected]

Keywords: Sudan Archaeology, GDR politics, visual culture, photography

Abstract

Th e Sudan Archaeological collection of the Humboldt-Universität Berlin not only contains a

range of ancient objects, but also detailed documents concerning expeditions that took place in

the 1960s. Th ese off er the opportunity to address not only Archaeological research questions

but also wider perspectives concerning contemporary history from a Cultural Science point

of view. Th e government of the German Democratic Republic agreed to fund archaeological

expeditions to the Republic of the Sudan between 1957–1970 as they were interested in fostering

relations to an Arab- African country. According to GDR press, the archaeologists would set

out to fi nally “give” the young African country a past, opposing colonial thinking and helping

them to form their national identity. Taking into account this very specifi c political background,

my thesis project aims at taking a closer look at the propagandistic concept of socialist

“Völkerfreundschaft” (“Fraternity of peoples”) through the analysis of representations of the

East German archaeologist and the Sudanese workers. Most remarkably among the wide range

of the collection’s source materials is Ursula Hintze’s extensive photographic documentation,

leading to the question whether, and if so, how “Völkerfreundschaft” was presented to the East

German public visually. Even though the term “friendship” seems to presuppose a relationship

at eye level, it is questionable whether this is actually represented in the photographs that were

published.

Biographical Note:

Yvonne Reimers is a Master’s student of cultural studies in Berlin, with a focus on

history of science and a special interest in university/museum collections, writing her thesis about

the Sudan Archaeological collection of the Humboldt-Universität. She also works at the humanities

department of the natural history museum Berlin.

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OROBATES. RE_ANIMATED AFTER 300 MILLION YEARS.

AN EXHIBITION ON MODERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH

J. Lessinga, L. Jankeb

aHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Cluster of Excellence Bild Wissen Gestaltung, Sophienstr. 22a,

Berlin, 10178, GermanybTechnische Universität Berlin, Warthestrasse 60, Berlin, 12051, Germany

[email protected]

Keywords: exhibition, fossils, interdisciplinary research, experimental curation

Abstract

Orobates. Re-animated after 300 Million Years1 is an interdisciplinary student exhibition

(2015– 2017). Th e exhibition follows a recent bio-morphological research project focussing

on the potential movements of the fossil orobates pabsti. Th e exhibition traces the diff erent

research steps (e.g. excavation, preparation, 3D-digitisation, - reconstruction, -modelling and

virtual animation of the fossil skeleton) and focuses on people, themes and interim results that

are not usually displayed. Th erefore processes and methods of the research team are essential

to the curatorial concept. How did the researchers work? In which way did the human and

non-human actors participate? Th e exhibition answers these questions in a transparent way

by presenting exhibits directly taken from the research environment – going from traditional

collection objects such as fossils and track slabs to 3D-material, robots and archival documents.

Th e Orobates exhibition is most relevant in two main aspects. Th e critical and network-oriented

approach of the exhibition shows how academic collection objects and research can be brought

together in a research-based, even though public and entertaining way. Secondly the project

has an interdisciplinary and student-centred character. Th erefore it represents how collections,

object-based research, interdisciplinary questions and academic teaching interact successfully

and raises further issues of academic work in academic material culture.


Johanna Lessing is a Master student of cultural studies, with focus on history of science and special

interest in university/museum collections and the possibilities of researching exhibition practice. She is

a curator of “Orobates” and works in a research project on “Mobile Objects” at a cluster-of-excellence

at Humboldt-University of Berlin.

Lisa Janke is a Master student of art History with a focus on aesthetics, museum practices and strategies

of staging. She is a curator of “Orobates” and also engages in curating and producing art exhibitions with

her own association “Artburst Berlin”.

1 Original: Orobates. Nach 300 Millionen Jahren reanimiert

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THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE OF VANDOEUVRELÈSNANCY

GEORGES TOURRY, CLAUDE GOCLOWSKI

AND EDMOND LAY ARCHITECTS, 19681971:

WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR THIS ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE?

C. Bauer

Laboratoire Conception Territoire Histoire Matérialité (LACTH), École nationale supérieure d’architecture et de

paysage de Lille, 2, rue Verte, 59 650 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

[email protected]

Keywords: university architecture, architectural heritage of the XXth, Frank Lloyd Wright, Nancy

(France)

Abstract

Th e Faculty of Science of Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy is part of a vast urbanization project, and

address the needs created by the increasing number of students in France in the 1950s. Th e

buildings of the second and third postgraduate teachings are registered in the trend of an organic

architecture, thought and realized in close connection with its environment. Th ey were built at

the instigation of Edmond Lay (1930), who returned from an American stay. Th e compositions

in arcs of circle and the relationship to nature thus inscribe this edifi ce in the fi liation of Frank

Lloyd Wright (1867-1959).

Since its completion in the early 1970s, the Faculty has undergone several transformations.

New institutions established themselves on the site, disrupting the initial relationship of the

Faculty to its landscape. Within the buildings, a densifi cation of the initial spaces is observed,

which has blurred the legibility of the initial project.

Th is contribution aims to share the knowledge of this architecture and the initial intentions

developed in the project. Th ey are essential to adapt this heritage to the best possible use

(maintenance, rehabilitation, extensions ...), but also in the current context, where the university

is questioning the future of the site in the long term.

Biographical Note:

Architect, Phd from University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Caroline Bauer is teaching in the school

of architecture and landscape in Lille. Her researches are about history of Architecture in the XXth

century, focusing on heritage, and history of the profession. She’s member of the scientifi c council and

the board of DoCoMoMo France.

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A COMMON APPROACH TO MANAGING PRESERVATION OF

ACADEMIC HERITAGE IN GREECE

A. D. Fotopoulosa

aUniversity of Ioannina, Ioannina, 45110, Greece

[email protected]

Keywords: University of Ioannina, Cultural Heritage, Academic national network, Preventive

conservation

Abstract

Founded in 1964, the University of Ioannina boasts a rich academic heritage: two museums

(Folklore/Ethnographic Museum, Medical History Museum) and a unique and extensive

collection of typography exhibits, all designed to play a signifi cant role in both research and

education. It is essential to understand the meaning of history and heritage, since they are

the base of the university’s reputation. Although each university possesses a history of varied

content, length and signifi cance, the rich heritage collections kept by universities remain

undefi ned and largely unknown. In order to raise awareness to the importance of academic

cultural heritage, University of Ioannina encourages the creation of a national academic network

in Greece aiming at the documentation, presentation study, access and promotion of Greek

academic heritage with the aim to establish links and guidelines between European universities,

share experiences and knowledge, engage in collaborative projects as well as to raise public and

policy awareness of the value of university museums and collections for research as a source for

creativity and inspiration. Disaster management planning and preventive conservation are key

aspects to this common approach and policy and will allow the institutions to continue their

mission as cultural centers off ering a refl ection of their academic identity.


A. D. Fotopoulos is Vice Rector of academic aff airs and human resources, Professor of nuclear medicine

of medical school and President of the committee of museums and cultural heritage, University of

Ioannina.

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A HANDBOOK FOR SCHOOLS’ SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONS

D. Paradiso a, A. Garuccio b, R. Francescangeli b

aAssociazione Meridiana ONLUS, via Fusco 11, Gioia del Colle, 70023, ItalybSistema Museale di Ateneo (SiMA)-Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, via Celso Ulpiani 27,

Bari, 70126, Italy

[email protected]

Keywords: school scientifi c heritage, preventive conservation, management, training

Abstract

Th e italian scientifi c heritage of museum and university collections is also enriched by the

high-school scientifi c collections. Th is relevant patrimony, historically used to support the

teaching of Science, is widespread on all Italian territory and is aff ected by consistent problems

of conservation due to the diffi culties of schools to respect the current criteria for management

and conservation of cultural heritage.

After some recovery and study projects on Apulian school collections, the Meridiana ONLUS

Association, with the collaboration and funding of the Museum System of the University of Bari

Aldo Moro (SiMA), has elaborated a handbook of “good practices” for the preservation and

the management in loco of scientifi c collections dedicated especially to schools but even to all

public and private institutions owning these objects.

In order to prevent the risk of damage and losses of this heritage, the handbook will be tested

in the schools of the Province of Bari involved into a SiMA “School-Job” project, as a didactic

support tool for training courses and workshops on the maintenance and management of school

scientifi c collections directed to students, Science teachers and schools’ staff .

Biographical Notes:

Daniela Paradiso has a Degree in natural sciences and scientifi c museology and a PhD in history

of science: research on the history of techniques of preparation and conservation in anatomy. She is

collaborator of SiMA for cataloguing, communication and education. She is also President of meridiana

ONLUS association for the valorization of the cultural heritage of the Province of Bari.

Augusto Garuccio is full Professor of didactics and history of physics at University of Bari, Director

of interuniversity center for history of science, and President of museum system of university of Bari

Aldo Moro. His primary research interests are: quantum entanglement, history of modern physics, and

management of university museums.

Ruggero Francescangeli is Director of the university museum system and technical coordinator of

the earth science museum of University of Bari Aldo Moro. For several years dealing with cataloguing

standards, research on the collections and educational path for scientifi c museology, dedicated to school

pupils and blind people.

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POLARIMETERS OF THE FACULTY OF PHYSICS

OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA

S. Vallmitjanaa, A. Marzoaa, S. Garcíab, P. Mateosb, O. Silvestreb

aDepartament de Física Aplicada, Universitat de Barcelona

Martí i Franquès 1, Barcelona, 08028, Spain

[email protected] d’Art Cultura i Patrimoni, Universitat de Barcelona,

Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 585, Barcelona, 08007, Spain

[email protected]; [email protected]

Keywords: Polarimetry, Scientifi c Instruments, University Collections, University Museum,

Academic Heritage

Abstract

Th e continuous development of the study of phenomena related to the polarization of light

throughout the 19th century represented an important complementary advance in the knowledge

of the nature and concept of light. At the same time techniques and applications in the analysis

of substances through observation and quantifi cation of this phenomenon were developed with

important applications in the fi elds of medicine and industry.

Th e most often analysed substance was sugar, interest in which grew during the 19th century

until it became a product of great economic importance. Th is resulted in a specifi c designation

for polarimeters used in the sugar industry called saccharimeters.

With respect to science, polarimeters helped in the identifi cation and characterization of

hundreds of natural and synthetic mono and polysaccharides substances as well as a large

number of derived compounds.

Th e collection of Scientifi c Instruments of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona

has several items related to the measurement of light polarisation properties and also for their

applications as saccharimeters. In this communication a description of these instruments, as

well the basic operation in their historic context, will be presented.

Biographical Notes:

Santiago Vallmitjana Rico is Professor at the Applied Physics and Optics Department of the Faculty of

Physics of the University of Barcelona in the Research Group of Optics and Photonics. He is the author/

co-author of more than one hundred scientifi c papers related to optics and photonics and a member

of several scientifi c societies. He has been responsible for the collection of instruments of the Physics

Faculty since 2004.

Antonio Marzoa Domínguez received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona

in 2016. Currently he is a student of the Master’s degree in Photonics in Barcelona organized by three

universities of Catalonia. He has been a member of the Optics and Photonics Group of the University

of Barcelona and participated in the updating of the database for the collection of instruments of the

Physics Faculty.

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Salvador García Fortes is Vice-Rector of the Department of Arts, Culture and Heritage of the University

of Barcelona. He is Professor of Fine Arts, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, and gives

classes for the Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage and for the Master’s in

Conservation and Restoration Projects.

His research activity falls within a research group catalogued in the Groups of Excellence of Catalonia:

the Research Group of Heritage Conservation and Restoration.

Pilar Mateo Bretos is a graduate of Geography and History from the University of Barcelona. She has

a Master’s Degree in Museology and Cultural and Ethnological Heritage in the University of Barcelona

and also a Certifi cate in Didactic Museography in the University of Barcelona. She is working to the

Vice-Rector’s Department of Arts, Culture and Heritage of the University of Barcelona as coordinator

of exhibitions.

Oriol Silvestre Canut is a graduate of Art History from the University of Barcelona. He has a postgraduate

Degree in Conservation and Commerce of Art in the University Pompeu Fabra and also has a Certifi cate

in Advanced studies in Art History in the University of Barcelona. At present he is working in the Vice-

Rector’s Department for Arts, Culture and Heritage of the University of Barcelona.

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THE COLLECTION OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS IN THE PHANAR

GREEK ORTHODOX COLLEGE IN ISTANBUL.

P. Lazosa

aNational and Capodestrian Univeristy of Athens, 13Α Navarinou Str, 10680, Athens, Greece

[email protected]

Keywords: Phanar Greek Orthodox College, Istanbul, Scientifi c instruments, Physics.

Abstract

Th e Greek community of Istanbul fl ourished during the second half of 19th century for a variety

of political and economic reasons. During this period, many primary and secondary schools

were founded and equipped either by the church or rich donors of the community.

Perhaps, the most well known school of the community is the Phanar Greek Orthodox College,

(known as the Great School of the Nation in Greek and as Fener Rum Erkek Lisesi in Turkish),

which was founded very earlier, in 1454, but was positively infl uenced by the prosperity of

this era. As a result, the School was, at last, accommodated in an impressive new building in

1881, which had a spacious hall for the collection of the physics instruments and an auditorium

dedicated to the teaching of experimental physics.

Th e collection of scientifi c instruments was gradually enriched with instruments made by

famous makers (e.g. Bretton Frères, Salleron, Max Kohl etc.) and fi nally it overcame the 350

instruments.

For various reasons, unrelated to the professionalism of the staff , little attention has been given

to this collection during the past decades. In 2013, a detailed documentation of the collection

was launched and it has now been completed. Th e main results of this work will be presented in

this poster along with some interesting questions that have been come of the research.


Panagiotis Lazos is a PhD student in the department of primary education of the National University

of Athens. His main research interest is the recording of collections of scientifi c instruments of the 19th

century in Greek Schools and the study both of if and how they were used in the educational process.

He is, also, the scientifi c project number of the hellenic archive of scientifi c instruments of the National

Hellenic Research Foundation.

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NETWORKS AND EXCHANGE

AT A CANADIAN RESEARCH UNIVERSITY

E. Weidenhammer

Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST), Apt 1711, 160 Erskine Ave,

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4P 1Z3

[email protected]

Keywords: Collections, STEM, Canada, Toronto

Abstract

Canadian research universities are well behind their counterparts in Western Europe and the

United States in developing museum collections. Th e recent emergence and ad-hoc nature of

these university collecting eff orts means that much material has been absorbed by a range of

collections beyond the university. In this way, the migration of objects within and beyond the

university maps the history of eff orts to characterize and represent Canada’s research heritage.

Th is paper explores the process of defi ning and developing a collection representing the STEM

fi elds at the University of Toronto—Canada’s largest research university and among its oldest.

It presents the range of actors, disciplines, and institutions currently and historically involved

in this “musealisation” process. It explores the concept of mobility through the acquisition and

exchange of the University’s scientifi c material culture. It focuses particularly on the process of

constructing a network of departmental collections within the university, and connections to

museums and archives beyond the University, that are joined by a common eff ort to represent

the history of research, teaching, and practice.

Th e establishment of a University of Toronto STEM collection is an ongoing process. Th e author

solicits comments on methodology from European counterparts who have undergone similar

eff orts.

Biographical Note:

Erich Weidenhammer is the curator of the University of Toronto Scientifi c Instruments Collection

(UTSIC). He received his PhD from the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in 2014.

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SPECIAL PRESENTATION BY

PAOLO FERRI AND PEGRAM HARRISON

ON THE BEHALF OF OXFORDBOLOGNA CONSORTIUM OXBO

1. Background

Over several decades there has been an increasing interest among the research, teaching and

professional communities to examine how the disciplines of management and the humanities

can inform each other.1 Oxford and Bologna are remarkably well positioned to contribute

to this trend because of their histories and collections, and because of their prominent and

interdisciplinary management schools. Few institutions can match the mix of conditions

found among the currently active research scholars, teaching and learning resources, and

interdisciplinary activities.

Th e Oxford-Bologna Consortium (OxBo) has been formed to participate in this trend, as well

as to study how it works, by providing a global reference point for a more productive, more

impactful and more sustainable interaction between management studies and the humanities.

Th e general outcomes of this collaboration will include more eff ective management approaches

to humanities assets that can be tested, validated, scaled up, and disseminated with the wider

academic community. Also, we will address how management research and teaching can be

reshaped inside professional organizations by drawing on the intellectual assets represented by

the humanities. In other words, we aim to build a better bridge between management and the

humanities, for the mutual improvement of each.

2. Aims and Objectives

Our current project concerns university museums. Th is forms an interdisciplinary bridge

between management studies and the humanities by investigating the academic practices for

dealing with material intellectual assets (museum collections, heritage sites, digital archives,

etc). It comprises a programme of knowledge conservation and exchange, as well as knowledge

production, with the purpose of developing more intensive and productive engagement with

these assets. In short, the aim is to examine how the structure and organization of university

museums evolved in an historical perspective, and to imagine patterns of development for the

future.

Th e initial phases of the project will focus on assessing and strengthening the practice and

theory required for an integrated approach to historic asset management. Th e emphasis is on

the studying dynamic intellectual value and relevance of university holdings and materials, in

particular museum collections.

1 Gagliardi, P. and Czarniawska, B., eds (2006), Management Education and Humanities, Fondazione Cini, Venice,

and Saïd Business School, Oxford.

Weil, S. (2012). Making Museums Matter. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.

Zan, L., et al. (2015). Managing Cultural Heritage. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.

See also, conference proceedings from Copenhagen Business School (2010), http://www.cbs.dk/en/research/

departments-and-centres/department-of-management-politics-and-philosophy/news/bridging-humanities-

and-management, accessed 20 Dec 2016

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3. Proposal

More specifi cally, OxBo has been awarded funding to conduct research on university museums,

provided by the university museum systems of both universities. In order to pursue topics of

value to the community of university museum leaders in Europe, the team proposes canvassing

the membership of Universeum at its June 2017 meeting about what data and topics it would

fi nd most useful to explore. We understand that Universeum researchers have already been

working for some time on university museums from the perspective of curators. What the OxBo

project would like to off er is an attempt to integrate this work more closely with organizational

theory and management research. Some indicative topics are suggested below. Also, we would

like to seek the members’ permission to interact further in carrying out the research.

3.1 Indicative topics for research on Europe an university museums:

Scoping exercise: understanding individual institutions in detail• Where is each institution, and what is the exact nature of their university affi liation?

• What networks and partnerships are they part of?

• How are they funded?

Managerial analysis: understanding the barriers and enablers of good management • What regional, national, and institutional laws and regulations govern each university

museum?

• How are the institutions governed? e.g. What is their legal status and structure?

• How much autonomy does each institution have within its university?

• How are the institutions led? e.g. What is the hierarchy of their management?

• How are the necessary skills for managing the institutions learned? By whom?

• How eff ective are current leadership practices? How are they assessed?

• How eff ective are current operational functions (such as cataloguing, ticketing, retail,

conservation, etc.)? How is their performance evaluated?

3.2 Methodology:

Desk-based survey of websites and literature

Online survey of museum staff and other key stakeholders, accessed with permission of

Universeum membership

Semi-structured interviews of selected individuals

Observation of daily activities in university museums

Comparative case study approach

Establishing full consent of all stakeholders prior to any data gathering

Please see Appendix below for indicative fi ndings already emerging from comparable work in

the Museum System of the University of Bologna.

3.3 Timing:

Summer 2017 – Summer 2018

Reporting at Universeum conference in June 2018

3.4 Funding:

Provided entirely by OxBo Consortium

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3.5 People involved [please see links for further details]:

Academic researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Bologna

Dr Anna Guagnini: Bologna Department of Philosophy and Communication

Prof Luca Zan and Dr Paolo Ferri: Bologna School of Economics, Management & Sta-

tistics

Prof Roberto Balzani: Sistema Museale Di Ateneo

Dr Silke Ackermann: Oxford University Museum of the History of Science

Dr Pegram Harrison and Dr Janet Smart: Oxford Saïd Business School

Lucy Shaw: Oxford University Museums Partnership

3.6 Quid pro quo:

All data and other outputs to be freely shared with Universeum membership

Opportunities for collaboration in the research

Ensuring that Universeum is properly acknowledged on all outputs (published, online,

etc)

OxBo off ers to run a free workshop on management and leadership skills for university

museum professionals, at Universeum 2018

…and/or other workshops that the membership would prefer

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INSTITUTIONAL AND ORGANISATIONAL ISSUES

OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA MUSEUMS:

STATE OF THE ART AND PROPOSAL FOR CHANGE

Introduction

In 2011 two researchers of the GIOCA research centre1 performed an analysis of the 18 University

of Bologna Museums2 aimed at proposing a roadmap for the institutional and organisational

transformation of these entities. Th e authors of the report are currently (2017) involved in

the implementation of the re-organisation process. Th e 2011’s study was based on qualitative

evidence collected through semi-structured interviews with the directors of the museums

and other members of the University administration. Besides, relevant documentations such

as annual reports and internal documents were also collected. Th e analysis was performed in

three interrelated stages. First, the research team investigated each museum separately, focusing

on the conditions and use of the spaces, the human and fi nancial resources, the activities

performed, and the type and number of visitors (stage 1). Building on this initial understanding,

the researchers highlighted a set of critical issues (stage 2) and recommended some lines of

intervention (stage 3). For space reason in this document we present a synthesis of the main

fi ndings of stages 2 and 3.

Critical issues observed

Th e museum-by-museum analysis highlighted problems of fragmentation and lack of

coordination that was observed at diff erent levels:

• Institutional fragmentation: of the 18 entities referred to as the University of Bologna

Museums, 15 were controlled by diff erent University Departments. Th ese 15 museums were

part of the University Museum System (Sistema Museale di Ateneo – SMA hereafter), a

second-level organisation whose aim is to coordinate and promote the University Museums.

On the other hand, the Palazzo Poggi Museum was a semi-autonomous entity, with its own

administration. Lastly, the European Museum of the Student (Museo Europeo dello Studente

– MEUS) and the Quadreria were sub-units of the Historical Archive of the University. It

was diffi cult to fi nd a rationale behind this organisation, which seemed more a result of

several loosely coupled decisions and events.

• Fragmentation in activities, communication and opening hours: using the words of the former

SMA director “at present, it is very diffi cult to increase the awareness of the University

Museums among the general public”: in fact, the presence of many uncoordinated initiatives

did not help the development of a clear identity for the University Museums. For instance,

the SMA website did not mention the Palazzo Poggi Museum or the MEUS because the latter

1 Luca Zan and Paolo Ferri. Th e GIOCA Research Center is active in the fi eld of management and innovation of

cultural heritage and arts organizations within the Management Department of Bologna University, Italy.

2 Cere anatomiche, Zoologia, Anatomia comparata, Antropologia, Erbario, Orto Botanico, Fisica, Archivio di

Astronomia, Geologia, Mineralogia, Anatomia animali domestici, Anatomia patologica, Strumenti veteri-

nari, Museo della Specola, Palazzo Poggi, IX centenario, MEUS, Quadreria università. More information on the

University of Bologna Museums can be found here http://www.sma.unibo.it/il-sistema-museale

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were not part of the SMA from an institutional point of view (see Institutional fragmentation).

Episodes of lack of coordination were also observed within the Museums belonging to SMA.

Although some Museums were – and still are - located in the same buildings, there was a

lack of common initiatives, services and opening hours, mirroring a lack of attention to the

visitors’ experience1. • Fragmentation with regard to teaching: some museums still played a role in the teaching

activities of the related Departments. However, for the majority of the museums the

involvement with university-level educational activity was minimal. In these cases, visitors

were mostly primary school pupils from the Bologna area.

• Fragmentation in the number of visitors: the number of visitors was highly heterogeneous.

According to estimates, some museums did not have more than 200 visitors per year. On the

other hand, in 2009 Palazzo Poggi Museum and the Geology Museum had 21,000 and 35,000

visitors respectively. It was interesting to note that the museum of Mineralogy had only 6,000

visitors, despite being located just in front of the museum of Geology. Th is suggested that

opening hours, activities and availability of human resources had a strong impact on the

results in terms of visitors.

Beyond the diff erences highlighted so far, a strong and common element of concern emerged

across all museums: human resources. In fact, many museums directors were about to retire.

Clearly there was a problem of turnover; to make things worse, the fact that the directorship of

a university museum is not formally recognized as an academic activity makes the search for

replacements is diffi cult. By the same token, in many cases the number of curators is inadequate

because such positions do not exist within the University’s administration. Th e Museums were

also highly dependent on volunteers. To put it bluntly without volunteers many Museums

would not open.

Lines of intervention

On the basis of our survey, and with a view to mitigate the problems outlined above, we suggested

to give priority to the fragmentation issue. Th is entailed recognising that the University of

Bologna had, from the point of view of the visitor, 18 collections rather than 18 museums. On

this basis, suggestions for the overall reorganisation were made. Lines of intervention were as

follows:

a. Th e aggregation of collections on the basis on their location, theme, and opportunity for

development. In particular: • To incorporate into new Poggi Palace Museum the collection/museums located in the same

building, namely (and beyond the Poggi Palace Museum itself ) the MEUS, the Specola, the

Quadreria and the Museo del XI Centenario.

• To create the new Museum of Evolution bringing together the collections of Zoology,

Comparative anatomy, and Anthropology, all located in the same building.

• To establish the new Earth history museum, incorporating the Geology and Mineralogy

museums/collections.

1 As an example, these were the opening hours of three museums located in the same building:

• Zoology: from Monday to Friday, 8.30-18.30

• Comparative anatomy: from Monday to Friday, 9-15

• Anthropology: from Monday to Friday, 9-18.

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The study proposed also to relieve the Departments of administrative duties concerning the above mentioned collections, but to retain their scientifi c supervision. The three Museums were to develop a strong identity through activities and promotion.

b. Th e total delegation of administrative and scientifi c tasks to Departments for those col-

lections which were still used for teaching purposes1. In other terms, these collections

were not to be included in any enhancement plan, beyond the activities planned by each

Department.

c. Th e need to develop alternative solutions for the Botanic garden and the Astronomy ar-

chives given their peculiar features.

Th e study detailed also the steps needed to support this transformation from the point of view

of governance and human resources.

1 Anatomia degli animali domestici, Anatomia patologica e teratologia veterinaria, Raccolta di strumenti chirur-

gici veterinari, Erbario, Museo delle Cere anatomiche.

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