About
The discussion of transatlantic science collecting practices and scientific exchanges is at the core of this blog. It aims to share new knowledge and discoveries on how historical knowledge is constructed and reproduced in museum collections.
The EU-funded project Scientific Collections on the Move: Provincial Museums, Archives, and Collecting Practices (1850–1950) offers a less hierarchical and more entangled history of palaeontological, anthropological, botanical, and applied sciences collections in Europe and Latin America and tackles the issue of museum objects provenance.
This blog is destined for scholars, museum professionals, teachers, students, and science amateurs and strives to forge a new vision of museum collections as living networks of knowledge exchange and circulation.
Latest posts
- Nathalie Richard, “From Dinan to La Plata. How a prehistoric axe travelled from a small provincial city in France to the La Plata Museum in Argentina”/De Dinan à La Plata, les voyages d’une hache néolithique entre la France et l’ArgentineOn May 10, 1881, Gabriel de Mortillet (1821-1898), one of the prominent French prehistorians of his time, wrote to Fiorentino Ameghino (1853-1911), a scholar from Argentina who was then living […]
- IAUB ARCHAEOLOGY TALKSBy Irina Podgorny May 23th/ 23 de maig de 2023, 16:30 h Sala Jean Adams, Facultatde Geografia i Història Barcelona
- Un hueso de camélido grabadoDe Marina L. Sardi En las colecciones del museo BASA (Bonner Amerikas-Sammlung) de la Universidad de Bonn, muchos objetos, pertenecientes a sociedades indígenas precolombinas y contemporáneas de las Américas, están confeccionados […]
- A carved Boneby Marina L. Sardi In the collections of the BASA Museum (Bonner Amerikas-Sammlung) at the University of Bonn, many objects from pre-Columbian and contemporary indigenous societies in the Americas are made […]
- Nathalie Richard gives a talk in Marc-Antoine Kaeser’s seminar on May 17 2023