Responding to stories: The 1876 Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus and the Science Museum

Responding to stories: The 1876 Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus and the Science Museum

This article argues that it is useful to see historical exhibitions as both responses and contributors to narratives about science that are circulating in the public sphere. It uses the example of the 1876 Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus (which was the immediate predecessor of the Science Mu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dr Robert Bud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science Museum, London 2014-03-01
Series:Science Museum Group Journal
Subjects:
discourse and museums
Henry Roscoe
Loan collection
Lyon Playfair
Norman Lockyer
Patent Office Museum
Richard Glazebrook
Royal Commission on Museums and Galleries
Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction
scientific apparatus
scientific instrument exhibition
Science Museum
Society for Scientific Industry
South Kensington Museum
Online Access:http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/2014/responding-to-stories/

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