Challenging Collections: approaches to the heritage of recent science and technology
Maker and role
Helmuth Trischler, Editor
Robert Bud, Editor
Bernard Finn, Editor
Production date
2017
Object detail
Accession number
PUB-2017-87
Description
Introduction
Reflection:
1 - the sciences between technical demiurgy, economic matters of fact, and political regulations: historical overview, current situation, and normative principles
Conceptualizing contemporary collecting:
2 - a tape measure and a "t" stop: or, why museums of science and technology should collect more contemporary artefacts
3 - history as intellectual and organizational tool in creating a collections rationale: the smithsonian's national air and space museum's spaceflight artefacts as case study
4 - understanding "contemporary collecting": modern collecting at the science museum
5 - software archives and software libraries
Networks of collecting:
6 - interpreting the collection and display of contemporary science in chinese museums as a reflection of science in society
7 - a national program for safeguarding scientific and technical heritage
Dialogue and diversity:
8 - collecting twentieth-century chemistry: a reevaluation of collecting philosophy and goals at the chemical heritage foundation
9 - a snapshot of canadian kitchens: collecting contemporary technologies as historical evidence for future research
10 - preserving norway's oil heritage
11 - the balance between recent heritage and ongoing research: the case of jodrell bank observatory
Alternative approaches:
12 - against method: a story-based approach to acquiring artefacts from nobel laureates
13 - hands-on science centers as anticollections? the origins and implications of the exploratorium exhibits model
Insights and experiments:
Interview with James Hyslop
Interview with Osamu Kamei
Interview with Roland Wittje
Interview with Thomas Soderqvist
Reflection:
1 - the sciences between technical demiurgy, economic matters of fact, and political regulations: historical overview, current situation, and normative principles
Conceptualizing contemporary collecting:
2 - a tape measure and a "t" stop: or, why museums of science and technology should collect more contemporary artefacts
3 - history as intellectual and organizational tool in creating a collections rationale: the smithsonian's national air and space museum's spaceflight artefacts as case study
4 - understanding "contemporary collecting": modern collecting at the science museum
5 - software archives and software libraries
Networks of collecting:
6 - interpreting the collection and display of contemporary science in chinese museums as a reflection of science in society
7 - a national program for safeguarding scientific and technical heritage
Dialogue and diversity:
8 - collecting twentieth-century chemistry: a reevaluation of collecting philosophy and goals at the chemical heritage foundation
9 - a snapshot of canadian kitchens: collecting contemporary technologies as historical evidence for future research
10 - preserving norway's oil heritage
11 - the balance between recent heritage and ongoing research: the case of jodrell bank observatory
Alternative approaches:
12 - against method: a story-based approach to acquiring artefacts from nobel laureates
13 - hands-on science centers as anticollections? the origins and implications of the exploratorium exhibits model
Insights and experiments:
Interview with James Hyslop
Interview with Osamu Kamei
Interview with Roland Wittje
Interview with Thomas Soderqvist
Media/Materials
Physical description
xi, 251 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 25.5 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781944466107
Credit line
Helmuth Trischler et al. 2017. Challenging Collections: approaches to the heritage of recent science and technology, PUB-2017-87. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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