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Monday 26th June
11:00 Registration in the Kanaris Foyer, Manchester Museum
Tea, coffee and cake
Session 1: Connecting Collections and Breaking Isolation
11:30 Welcome, Dr David Gelshorpe
11:40 Dr. Cornelia Weber, Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany. ‘Back to the Roots: University Collections as Infrastructure for Research and Teaching’
12:05 Dr. Tim Boon, Science Museum Group. ‘Science Museum Group Research and the Interdisciplinary Culture of Collections’
12:30 Dr Caroline Cornish, Royal Holloway, University of London. ‘Useful or curious’? Reinventing Kew’s Museum of Economic Botany’
12:55 Lunch
Session 2: Reaching new audiences
14:00 Mark Carnall, Oxford University Museum of Natural History. ‘Not real, not worth it?’
14:25 Henry McGhie, Manchester Museum. ‘Beyond ‘natural history’: museums for the 21st century’
14:50 Jocelyn Dodd, University of Leicester. ‘Encountering the Unexpected: natural heritage collections & successful aging’
15:15 Tea, coffee and biscuits
Session 3a: New meanings through art, history and research
15:45 Prof. Yves Winkin, Musée des arts et métiers. ‘An amateur director, professional curators, and a desire for a cabinet of curiosities’
16:10 Dr. Marjan Scharloo, Teylers Museum. ‘Making sense of a historic display: connecting art and science in an authentic setting’
16:45 Close of day sessions and opportunity to explore ‘Object Lessons’ with the exhibition curators on hand to answer questions.
Tuesday 27th June
9:45 Tea, coffee and pastries. Kanaris Foyer, Manchester Museum
Session 3b: New meanings through art, history and research
10:20 Dr. Martha Flemming, Victoria and Albert Museum. ‘What kinds of things can we do with these things? Collections-based and material culture approaches for humanities research and creative practice’
10:45 Dr. Laurens de Rooy, Museum Vrolik, Medical and natural history collections as historical objects: a change of perspective?
11:10 Prof. Dirk van Delft, Boerhaave Museum. ‘Real bones for teaching medicine’
11:35 Dr Petra Tjitske Kalshoven, The University of Manchester. ‘The manikin in taxidermy: modelling conceptions of nature’.
12:00 Conference closes
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