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Paleontological Museum of Oslo

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Exhibit
  • Museum
  • University
URL: 

http://www.toyen.uio.no/palmus/english.htm

Author: 
Paleontological Museum of Oslo
Excerpt: 

The University of Oslo, Paleontological Museum contains the largest collection of fossils in Norway and functions as a National Museum.  Dedicated work with organising a special type collection started in  the 1920s and  today specimens are housed in a special locked room and carefully arranged in a series of metal cupboards according to date of publication.  At present there are well over 19.000 catalogued specimens of which almost 3.000 are type and figured specimens found in  960 publications dating from 1833 to the present.  All relevant publications and specimens are recorded in the museum data base and will be available on the www in the near future. In English and Norwegian.

Yale Peabody Museum: Paleobotany

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Exhibit
  • Life Sciences
  • Museum
  • Primary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/pb/

Author: 
Department of Paleobotany; Leo J. Hale
Excerpt: 

The Yale Peabody Museum's paleobotanical collection is world wide in scope with about 75% of the collection derived from North America and the other 25% from South America, China, West Indies, Israel, Lebanon, Pakistan, Central America, Australia, Antarctica, Europe and the Arctic. The approximate geological distribution of the collection is 30% Mesozoic, 32% Cenozoic, 33% Paleozoic and 5% Proterozoic. The taxonomic distribution is estimated as follows: 1% Cyanobacteria, 5% "Algae", 2% Bryophyta, 5% Lower Vascular Plants, 10% Progymnosperms, 10% Gymnosperms, and 67% Angiosperms.

Cyberspace Museum

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Aviation/Space Exploration
  • Earth Sciences
  • Exhibit
  • Images
  • Non-Profit
  • Personal
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.cyberspacemuseum.com/

Author: 
Cyberspace Museum; James Granahan
Excerpt: 

The Cyberspace Museum is a virtual internet museum created by James Granahan. Its purpose is to exhibit paleontology and or planetary research and science information on the internet. The Cyberspace Museum is not currently associated with any other museum or institute

Freud Museum

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Exhibit
  • Images
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Museum
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.freud.org.uk/

Author: 
Freud Museum - London
Excerpt: 

The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. It remained the family home until Anna Freud, the youngest daughter, died in 1982. The centrepiece of the museum is Freud's library and study, preserved just as it was during his lifetime.
It contains Freud's remarkable collection of antiquities: Egyptian; Greek; Roman and Oriental. Almost two thousand items fill cabinets and are ranged on every surface. There are rows of ancient figures on the desk where Freud wrote until the early hours of the morning. The walls are lined with shelves containing Freud's large library of reference books.

Annotation: 

The Freud Museum of London's central function is to celebrate the life and work of Sigmund and Anna Freud. The museum organizes research programs and publications, the details of which can be found on this site. It also has an education service that organizes seminars, conferences and special visits to the museum. The site provides information about the archives and other collections of the museum, the photograph library and a chronology. Essays and on line exhibits feature Anna Freud, Freud in England, the Interpretation of Dreams, and Ideas in Psychoanalysis. As the museum is privately funded and strapped for cash, the navigation and graphics for this site are fairly simple though useable.

Center for the Study of the History of Nursing

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Exhibit
  • Images
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Professional Association
URL: 

http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/history/

Author: 
Department of Nursing - University of Pennsylvania
Excerpt: 

The Center was founded in 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
to collect, preserve and make accessible primary sources which document Nursing's history.

Annotation: 

This site contains abstracts for the Center's extensive archives related to the history of nursing. It also contains a gallery of photos, research guidelines and instructions, and links to many offsite resources. Many of the links are broken, as this is an older site. However, most of the content is available and is especially useful for those interested in potentially visiting the Center.

Disability Social History Project

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Biographical
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Exhibit
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Professional Association
  • Secondary Source
  • time line
URL: 

http://www.disabilityhistory.org/index.html

Author: 
Disability Social History Project
Excerpt: 

The Disability History Project is a community history project and we welcome your participation. This is an opportunity for disabled people to reclaim our history and determine how we want to define ourselves and our struggles. People with disabilities have an exciting and rich history that should be shared with the world. Please email us about anything that you would like to see become part of the Disability Social History Project, including your disabled heroes, important events in disability history, and resources.

Annotation: 

The Disability Social History Project has recorded a number of biographies of famous people with disabilities and a timeline tracing developments in social views of disabilities. The biographies contain a number of off-site links for each entry. Bibliographies organized by topic and several exhibits are also provided, as are links to related sites and projects. Great educational tool.

Mind and Body: René  Descartes to William James

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Biographical
  • Exhibit
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Secondary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/Table.html

Author: 
Robert H. Wozniak
Excerpt: 

Much of the intellectual history of psychology as both a scientific and a clinical enterprise has involved the attempt to come to grips with these two problems of mind and body. Through this exhibit and in the discussion to follow, we will trace this history as we identify major contributions to theories of mind, body and their relationship. Starting with Descartes, whose formulation of the problem has in one way or another affected all later views, we will note the way in which 17th and 18th century ideas developed in direct response to the Cartesian challenge, and then relate 19th century mind/brain theorizing to progress in understanding the brain as the "organ of mind" and the mind as a powerful source of physical illness and cure.

With this as background, we will outline the rise of experimental psychology as it occurred at the interface between philosophical analyses of the mind/world relationship and physiological conceptions of the nervous system as a sensory-motor device mediating between the mind and the world. In this regard, we will focus not only on European but on early and often overlooked American contributions. We will conclude with a brief discussion of some of the most important influences on the thought of William James, whose Principles of Psychology (1890) gathered all of these various threads together in what is probably the greatest single work in psychology.

Annotation: 

This essay/exhibit concerns the impact of the debates over the mind/body division and man as machine. Starting with Rene Descartes, the debate is traced through the writings of early modern philosophers such as Malebranche, Spinoza and La Mettrie, and nineteenth century psycholgists including Shadworth Holloway Hodgson, George Henry Lewes and William Benjamin Carpenter. William James' theories serve as the conclusion of this debate. A useful introduction to this debate, the essay is the most interesting part of this exhibit, though a few dozen thumbnail images may prove helpful as well.

Agropolis-Museum

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Consumer Technology
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Exhibit
  • Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)
  • Museum
URL: 

http://museum.agropolis.fr/english/default.htm

Author: 
Agropolis Museum
Excerpt: 

Agropolis-Museum is a Science Center dealing with topics such as food, nutrition, agriculture, with an historical approach on a worldwide scale.
From his origin, man struggled endlessly to get food. But the forms of this quest have greatly changed. This exhibition of Agropolis-Museum wants to show the most significant facts of the agro-food development, essentially in the euro-mediterranean region

Chemical Heritage Foundation

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Educational
  • Engineering
  • Exhibit
  • Images
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Professional Association
URL: 

http://www.chemheritage.org/

Author: 
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Excerpt: 

The Chemical Heritage Foundation serves the community of the chemical and molecular sciences, and the wider public, by treasuring the past, educating the present, and inspiring the future.

In fulfillment of our mission, this site offers many tools for the researcher, the student, and those who want to explore and discover how chemical and molecular science has changed the world we live in.

Annotation: 

The Chemical Heritage Foundation was founded twenty years ago by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) to promote public understanding of chemistry, chemical engineering and their uses. This site is the home page for the organization, and mostly covers administrative elements and publicity. The Foundation does maintain a historical library in Philadelphia, and the site links to that library's online catalog of materials. In addition, the Foundation runs the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, which gives grants, awards and lectures. Moreover, the Beckman Center has conducted over 270 oral history interviews with chemists and has posted abstracts of those interviews on the site. The abstracts include short biographies of the subjects, and include forms to order full transcripts from the Foundation.

National Library of Medicine Exhibitions in the History of Medicine

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Artifacts
  • Biographical
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Educational
  • Exhibit
  • Government
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Non-Profit
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
  • Video
URL: 

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/

Author: 
National Library of Medicine - National Institute of Health
Excerpt: 

The Exhibition Program of the National Library of Medicine presents lively and informative exhibitions that enhance the public and scholarly awareness and appreciation of the National Library of Medicine’s collections. The Program conducts scholarly research in science, medicine, and history; interprets that research for presentation to diverse audiences; designs and develops engaging displays; and produces educational outreach programs. The Exhibition Program makes traveling versions of its exhibitions, which are hosted by America’s libraries and medical centers. The Exhibition Program promotes public education about science, medicine, and history through its creation of interactive exhibitions, multimedia displays, traveling exhibitions, web sites, symposia, films, lectures, and publications. The Program expands the local community’s knowledge about the Library’s collections though outreach to community groups, senior centers, schools, universities, and professional groups. The Exhibition Program manages a robust tour program for Library visitors, which features special presentations by National Institutes of Health scientists and other Library programs.

Annotation: 

The United States National Library of Medicine is located in Bethesda at the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health. This site lists about 20 exhibits, past and present, that have been displayed at the library and/or have online components. Many of these exhibits are outstanding, providing both scholars in the history of medicine and the general public interested in medical history with an array of images and texts relating to topics such as the study of stress, medieval Islamic medical books, and Frankenstein. The site also has links to other sites on the history of medicine at the NIH, and a list of public (offline) seminars in the history of medicine.

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