Heritage, web and the real thing EFP European Policy Workshop Future of Cultural Heritage Impact of external developments Neth-ER Brussels 18th of December 2012 Dirk van Delft Museum Boerhaave Leiden University
Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933)
Solvay conference , Brussels, 1927
Boerhaave Biography Prize 2012
Cryogenic Laboratory Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Villa ‘De witte olifant’ , Witte Rozenstraat, Leiden
Copenhagen conference, 15 September 1933
Ehrenfest’s farewell letter to Jan Burgers, 24 September 1933
Martin J. Klein († 2009; part 1 biography 1970)
Museum Boerhaave: National Museum for the History of Science and Medicine Founded in 1928 Present location: 1991 Collection: 100,000 artefacts, books, paintings, etc. (permanent exhibition: 2000) Staff: 35 FTE Mission: Based on its unique, magnificent collection, Museum Boerhaave aspires to appeal to a rich and varied audience, to excite and educate them, in a way that is fun for them. In this regard, the museum's constant aim is to dovetail with current events, never losing sight of the goal of creating support for science in society.
1922: jubilee professorship Kamerlingh Onnes = starting point Museum Boerhaave
Museum Boerhaave shows five centuries of Dutch innovation Huygens pendulum Big electromagnet Narcose mask Auzoux model
November 2010: Zijlstra’s Museum Tests 1. Numbers of visitors 2. Cultural entrepeneurship 3. Education and youngster participation 4. International renowed collection 5. Decentralisation 6. Innovation Recent acquisition: Land surveyor; Golden Age
Museum Boerhaave new style: • It’s all about the real thing • Nothing can compete with the historical sensation • Don’t worship artefacts in isolation, but incorporate them into fascinating stories • Don’t concentrate on technical explanations but offer relevant contexts Other ingredients of these stories: Auzoux collection - Pictures - Film clips - Archive material - Interactive displays - Augmented reality - Models - Games
String galvanometer Willem Einthoven
tele-elektrocardiogram (ECG)
Anatomical theater
Workshop ( 2008): ‘ Artificial Cold and International Cooperation in Science ’ Common Room
Exhibition My Skin
Exhibition Newton in the Netherlands
Salon Boerhaave: ’s Gravesande Vis viva drop test
Past: History of science = history of ideas E.J. Dijksterhuis The Mechanisation of the World Picture (1950) P.C. Hooft Prize 1952
Present: The gap between the worlds of the academic historian of science and the museum curator has gone Peter Galison (Harvard): Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (1997) Atlas detector, Large Hadron Collider, Geneva
Leiden University Chair: Material Heritage of the Sciences Inaugural Lecture (January 2009) Bling bling, key value and the underestimated instrument
Museum Boerhaave publications
Museum curators deal with material culture - History of science research related to items from the collection - Technical research - Restoration Restoration papier mâché anatomical models Auzoux collection
Replica pendulum Christiaan Huygens / Salomon Coster
Golden Age: Christiaan Huygens
Rings of Saturn
Christiaan Huygens Systema Saturnium (1659)
Observations Huygens ↔ performance of the lenses
Be careful about your curators! Accommodate scientific function in Parent Museums
Science and digital heritage
Second Golden Age Kamerlingh Onnes Lorentz De Sitter Zeeman and Ehrenfest
Kirov Military Medical Academy St Petersburg Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738)
DISHES Digital Initiative in Scientific Heritage for Europeana and Society Collections Trust Deutsches Museum (München) Museo Galileo (Florence) Medicinsk Museion (Kopenhagen) National Museums of Scotland (Edinburg) Science Museum (Londen) Coimbra Science Museum Norsk Teknisk Museum (Oslo) Museum Boerhaave Stiftelsen Tekniska Museet Technische Museum Wien
Teylers Museum Oval Room
Stichting Academisch Erfgoed
web presentation : Tuberculosis in the European Domain Electron microscope
Collection of photographic plates, Zeehospitium Katwijk (ca. 1925) Tuberculosis: a story, our story
Augmented Bodies / Piet Zwart Institute
Enhanced Publications (Huygens ING, DANS, Brill) Visual explanation of pictures, schemes and descriptions
Digitale Science Collection: integration of databases 2.0 Multimedia web-exhibitions (Physique Amusante) Public participation in collection management (helping the curator; mystery objects) Repository / new acquisitions / platform for collectors and connaisseurs / News Collect personal stories to specific objects Games Twitter, facebook, flickr Sciences NEMO Medicine Technology
Website as a meeting place; create an associated community
Ehrenfest 2.0
Ehrenfest e-biography: digital sources • Inventory Ehrenfest archive MB • Fortcoming: digitized letters • Dissertation Marijn Hollestelle • DBNL: Casimir, Haphazard Reality • RCE image bank: 2 hits • Europeana: 7 hits • Science & Society picture library: 0 hits • Emilio Sègre visual archives; AIP: ca. 50 hits • DCN: 3 hits • SAE: 2 hits • Niels Bohr Library & Archives
Where is Paul Ehrenfest?
Arnold Sommerfeld Crowd transcription of Ehrenfest letters (Russian)
Museum Boerhaave artefacts as props in international movies
Brain model
Nickolas Barris Lorentz – Einstein documentary movie Crowd sourcing Historians of science Lorentz, Einstein, Ehrenfest map
Auction during Museum Boerhaave fundraising dinner, 15 December 2011
Ehrenfest e -biography Enhanced publication: in-depth treatment and explanations for the layman Collecting stories via website; crowd sourcing Collecting and describing new material Flexibel digital 2.0 exhibition Online picture album Volunteers for making transcriptions Sociogram e-biography links to movie e-biography links to heritage e-biography links to contexts e-biography links to education e-biography links to research
Summary: 1. Don’t get rid of your curators: they have the knowledge 2. Keep on digitizing and opening up vulnerable heritage material 3. Heritage projects can’t do without innovative outreach 4. Build up a digital Science Collection Database with extra’s for the visitors 5. Use heritage for relevant stories
Summary: 1. Don’t get rid of your curators: they have the knowledge 2. Keep on digitizing and opening up vulnerable heritage material 3. Heritage projects can’t do without innovative outreach 4. Build up a digital Science Collection Database with extra’s for the visitors 5. Use heritage for relevant stories THANK YOU!
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