Barcelona, Museu de Ciències Naturals and Institut Botànic
13-14 April 2023

Thursday April, 13th (“Museu Blau”, Museum of Natural Sciences, Barcelona)
4-4:30 PM WELCOME
4:30-5:30PM KEY LECTURE by Alfons Zarzoso, director of Museu d’Història de la Medicina de Catalunya.
5:30-6PM IMPRESCINDIBLES Visit to the temporal exhibition: Imprescindibles. Les treballadores del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, 1917-1987. [Essentials. Women working in the Natural History Museum of Barcelona, 1917-1987].
6-7 PM NATURAL SCIENCE MUSEUM Visit to the permanent exhibition Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, including the room “The Cabinet of Curiosities of Barcelona.”
7-9 PM COCKTAIL DINNER Served at the Museu de Ciències Naturals.
Friday April, 14th (Botanic Institute of Barcelona)
9:30 AM CRISTIANA OGHINA-PAVIE & LOUISE COUEFFÉ Université d’Angers.
An herbarium of roses, between botanical inspiration and gardening curiosity.
10 AM CRISTINA CILLI, GIANCARLA MALERBA & GIACOMO GIACOBINI Human Anatomy Museum, University of Turin.
The showcase in the atrium of the Human Anatomy Museum (Turin): Ancient Specimens between Science and Curiosity.
10:30 AM COFFEE BREAK
11 AM XAVIER ULLED BERTRAN ICRPC-CERCA Programme
From Curiosity to Utility. Transformation and expansion of the Salvador cabinet, 1830-1855.
11:30 AM CLAIRE SHERIDAN Australian National University.
The waxing and waning of academic curiosity: uncovering and activating forgotten collections at the Australian National University.
12 AM DISCUSSION
1 PM LUNCH served at the Salvador Cabinet hall
2:30PM VISIT TO THE HERBARIA OF THE BOTANICAL INSTITUTE
3:30 PM CHRISTIAN STENZ Universität Heidelberg.
Beyond Coffee Beans. Coffee Plantations and Collecting Practises in 19th Guatemala.
4 PM SUSANA GARCÍA CONICET- Museo de La Plata.
Between spectacle and science: travelling exhibitions of seals and other curiosities in the mid 19th century.
4:30 PM OLIVER HOCHADEL IMF- CSIC, Barcelona.
Searching for the ideal zoological garden. Zoo travelers in the long nineteenth century.
5 PM MARIA ALEJANDRA PUPIO Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Salesian scientists in Argentine Patagonia in the first decades of the 20th century.
5:30 PM MIQUEL CARANDELL Museu de Ciències Naturals, Granollers
Scientific collections, historical archive and a specialized library of a middle-size natural history museum: the case of the Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers
6 PM DISCUSSION
7 PM CLOSURE
Contact – Aina Trias Verbeeck – tribeeck[at]gmail.com
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natrichard (April 4, 2023). SciCoMove Workshop # 4 – Places of encounters, and culture of curiosity. SciCoMove — Scientific Collections on the Move. Retrieved May 19, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/twty