Training Session “Natural history, collections, archives and museums in 19-20th centuries”

Venue: Aula Interactiva, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, La Plata (unless indicated otherwise)

Dates: 4–8 July 2022, 12 July 2022

Working language: English

Programme

4 July 2022

10:00–11:00
Welcome by Analía Lanteri, Director of Museo La Plata
Introduction by Irina Podgorny and Nathalie Richard: Presentation of the SciCoMove project and training session programme and objectives
Introduction by the participants

11:30–12:30
Unit 1: Introduction to the history of science, museum and collections

12:30–14:00
Lunch break

14:00–16:00
Visit of La Plata Museum.

16:30–17:30
Student workshop 1: Description of case studies to be worked on in small groups during the week

5 July

10:00–11:30
Unit 2: The emergence of public museums

11:30–12:30
Nathalie Richard: The French case

14:00–16:00
Unit 3: The practices of natural history: collections and museums.

16:30–17:30
Visit and presentation of La Plata Museum Archives

6 July

10:00–11:00
Unit 4: Collections: circulation & trade

11:00–12:30
Carla Jaimes Betancourt (guest speaker online): Case study “Lost collections and their archives. The case of Río Beni’s archaeological collections”

14:00–16:00
Student workshop 2: Work on case studies

16:30
Book Launch: Susana García (ed.): En el Mar Austral (Prohistoria ediciones, Collection Historia de la ciencia, 2021), Auditorio del Museo de La Plata, open to the public

7 July

10:00–12:30
Unit 5: Global Sciences, local practices
Case study: Fossils, sea mammals and antiquities.

14:00–16:15
Student workshop 3: Inna Pravdenko, Part 1 “How to communicate research with a poster”; Part 2 “Horizon Europe funding opportunities”

16:30
Public talk: Géraldine Delley, “The Laténium in Neuchâtel – histories of archaeological exhibitions”, Auditorio del Museo de La Plata, open to the public

8 July

10:00–12:30
The presentation of case studies work carried out by the participants during the week; discussion with the teaching team

14:00–15:00
Visits of Museum deposits in small groups and presentation of some collections: archaeology, entomology, anthropology

11 July

Work on posters

12 July (attendance recommended)

9:30–12:30
SciCoMove workshop “Casts, bones, and forgeries”, Auditorio de la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, UNLP, open to the public

12:30–14:00
Lunch break: Poster session

14:00–16:30
SciCoMove Workshop “Casts, bones, and forgeries” (continuation)


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Nathalie Richard (July 1, 2022). Training Session “Natural history, collections, archives and museums in 19-20th centuries”. SciCoMove — Scientific Collections on the Move. Retrieved April 28, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/twss


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