About this event
Since March 2020, medical museums across the UK have shown an impressive ability to adapt to new ways of working, keeping audiences and collections at the forefront when their doors have been forced to close.
Medical Museums occupy a unique space in the culture and heritage sector. Their historical collections, education and learning programmes, and public engagement offers are more important than ever, as UK citizens seek answers and information during this challenging time for public health. Just when we need a long view of medicine and health, our museums are facing operational challenges and uncertain futures. However, there’s a greater crisis in which medical museums could be playing a greater role – as trusted spaces to capture and share the stories of COVID-19, contextualised within the historic human struggle against disease.
This online event will be free to attend. It is being organised by the UK Medical Collections Group; a group of museums and collections reconvened in response to the coronavirus pandemic, to support collaboration between medical museums for the public good.
You are welcome to drop in for selected talks if you can’t make the whole day.
Morning session (10.00 – 12:15)
10:00 Welcome and introduction, Nat Edwards, Chief Executive, Thackray Medical Museum
Overview of Thackray as vaccination centre/reopening
10:15 Plague participation in the Pandemic: How Eyam Museum developed digital presence and new partnerships. Owen Roberts, Curator, Eyam Museum .
10:35 Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic : Sharing doctors voices. Lowri Jones, Senior Curator, Royal College of Physicians Museum.
10:55 How do you open a building that remains closed? Gail Chapman, Public Programmes Officer, Royal College of Physicians.
11:15 Comfort break
11:25 Enhancing the Science Museum’s catalogue in collaboration with volunteers from the Thalidomide Society – an online project during the third national lockdown. Selina Hurley and Ruth Blue, Curator of Medicine, The Science Museum.
11:45-12.15 Q&A
Afternoon session (14.00 – 16:00)
14:00 Welcome back
14:05 Memories of the ventilator: Trauma, personal mythology and the role of medical museum. Nina Thompson, MPhil/PhD student, University College London
14:15 Owen Gower, Museum Manager, Dr Jenner's House, Museum and Garden - title TBC
14:35 Q&A all speakers/ reflections
15:00 Round up and close
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