UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY
National Museums Scotland and Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation, the University of Edinburgh
UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY
Public lecture
Thursday 18 March 2009, 3:00 pm
Professor Christine MacLeod (University of Bristol):
“Museums of Machinery: how technology took shape in 19th-century Edinburgh, London and Paris”
Most of today’s great museums of technology, science and industry were founded in the nineteenth century, to showcase the latest inventions and discoveries and to help educate artisans, scientists and manufacturers in best practices and innovation. Only with the passage of time have their collections become historical and their prime audience the general public. But what was on display in these museums and how was it categorized? What did nineteenth-century museum visitors see? This lecture will explore the public galleries of three major museums, in Edinburgh, London and Paris, as they were developed during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It will suggest that what was on display there and, perhaps more importantly, what wasn’t on display has played a major part in shaping our own ideas about technology and science.
Dunfermline Room, National Museums Scotland
Admission free
Please register with Maureen Kerr on 0131 247 4274 or m.kerr@nms.ac.uk
Dr Klaus Staubermann
Principal Curator of Technology
National Museums Scotland
Chambers Street
Edinburgh EH1 1JF
Tel (0)131-247-4357
Fax (0)131-247-4312
e-mail k.staubermann@nms.ac.uk
Meet Your Maker, the creative minds behind Scotland's crafts. National Museum of Scotland, 29 January - 14 March. www.nms.ac.uk/maker
National Museums Scotland, Scottish Charity, No. SC 011130
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