Worhop #5: Applied science and collections

Take place on October 6, organized by the University of Angers

At: Université d’Angers – Maison de la recherche Germaine Tillion 5bis Bd. Lavoisier Angers

SciCoMove focuses on “provincial” and “peripheral” museums and collections, in particular those resulting from three crucial fields in the nineteenth-century natural sciences: paleontology, anthropology, and botany and the related “applied sciences”, such as
horticulture, commercial geography, pharmacy, and pest control.


In recent years, natural history museums have been studied as stimulators but also as results of economic activities in local, provincial and imperial contexts. Conversely, pharmacy, horticulture, commerce and industry generated their own collections either as an advertising device or in relation to knowledge and economic innovation. Models of fruits were produced as part of the forgotten discipline of pomology; botanical, zoological and mineralogical collections were part of the teaching and practice of pharmacy, ethnographic artefacts were displayed in
relation to commercial geography. Today these collections are dispersed or fragmented according to contemporary disciplines. Their origins, past uses and former connections are forgotten.


The SciCoMove workshop #5 in Angers October 6th 2023 focuses on these topics:
our goal is to reestablish lost connections thanks to archival and documentary
research.

The program here:


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
alexiacomte (September 28, 2023). Worhop #5: Applied science and collections. SciCoMove — Scientific Collections on the Move. Retrieved May 19, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/twux


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