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Health and Medicine Museums
Dear STAMAustralians, (apologies for cross-postings)
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Health and Medicine Museums
Special Interest Group
in association with the Museums Australia Inc. 1996 Conference
Seminar
MANAGING HEALTH AND MEDICINE MUSEUMS IN THE '90s
Wednesday 30 October 1996
Seminar: 12.30 pm for 1.00 pm
(Annual General Meeting: 4.30 pm)
Seminar Room, Hyde Park Barracks Museum
Queens Square, Macquarie Street, Sydney
Admission free. All interested people are welcome, especially custodians of
small collections whether or not they are devoted to health and medicine.
Speakers will present short talks on their experience of managing a small
museum and getting the most out of the collection.
Topics include:
* How much information is too much?: documenting a health and medicine
collection;
* The pro-am collaboration: professional curators and volunteer custodians;
* Dressing up to tell the naked facts: taking medical history exhibitions to
the community;
For seating and catering purposes please RSVP 21 October.
For full details contact Megan Hicks
Powerhouse Museum PO Box K346 Haymarket NSW 2000
Phone: 02 9217 0254 Fax: 02 9217 0355
email: meganh@phm.gov.au
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* Gavan McCarthy - Director
* Australian Science Archives Project
* University of Melbourne
* 203 Bouverie Street
* Carlton, Vic. 3053 Australia
* gavan@asap.unimelb.edu.au
* Phone: +61 3 9344 9287 Fax: +61 3 9349 4630
* ASAPWeb! on http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/
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