Great article by Kenneth Baker on how museums make models of the museum’s gallery spaces and all the objects that might appear in a given show, using foam core, balsa wood and cardboard. Paintings and photographs get miniaturized to scale using Photoshop. Read more
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Article: Exploratorium and the California Academy of Sciences
Interesting article by Edward Rothstein comparing how the new California Academy of Science and the Exploratorium excite wonder in visitors. He thinks the Exploratorium offers a better experience overall. See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/arts/design/04museum.html Also includes a slide show
Ann: Conventions of Display: Cultures of Exhibition in Twentieth-Century Medicine
Talk by Miriam Posner, Yale University Most medical historians have heard of anatomical museums and displays of anomalies in earlier eras. Few are aware, however, that exhibition has also been a crucial component of twentieth-century medicine. The prominence of exhibition in medicine suggests that historians should refine their notions of how medical ideas are communicated [...]
