Embodied Odysseys: Relics of stories about journeys through past, present, and future

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• 作者：Robert Bud
• 关键词：Applied science ; Arthur morin ; Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Mé ; tiers ; Deutsches museum ; Heritage ; Norman Lockyer ; Oscar von Miller ; Pure science ; Science museum
• 刊名：Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
• 出版年：December, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：44
• 期：4
• 页码：639-642
• 全文大小：212 K

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This paper argues that the heritage represented by a museum should be seen not just in its individual objects but also in the relationships between them. The Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et M茅tiers and the Science Museum in London, the earliest great European science museums, were deeply concerned with the relationship between science and practice. The foundation speeches of the Deutsches Museum emphasised the concern with both past and future. Such ancestry provided hard-to-escape templates within which collections were built up over the subsequent century and more. Thus the Science Museum鈥檚 biotechnology collection developed at the very end of the twentieth century and albeit based on detailed historical research reflects the same concerns with science-technology relations as could be seen in the 1876 Loan Exhibition which started off the Science Museum. The physical presence of such carefully-structured accumulations of objects could embody and reinforce the reality of such categories as pure and applied science.