Disability histories - ideas for an exhibition
Kate-Louise Smith emailed asking about the Museum's collection relating to disability.
I replied that as we deal with amputations we do have a strong connection with disability. However we do not have a large collection and so (apart from the tools that help make people disabled!) we only have a pair of crutches, a couple of interesting hearing aids and some prints and drawings which may be relevant. But it would be a really interesting project - a temporary/travelling exhibition on wheelchairs and crutches and hearing aids and glasses and false teeth, eyepatches, false eyes, prostheses of various kinds, strait jackets etc.
It would be visually quite something.
Kate is responsible for the untoldLondon.org.uk web site which describes where Londoners of many cultural groups can find their histories in the capital.
Key words = museums medhist
I replied that as we deal with amputations we do have a strong connection with disability. However we do not have a large collection and so (apart from the tools that help make people disabled!) we only have a pair of crutches, a couple of interesting hearing aids and some prints and drawings which may be relevant. But it would be a really interesting project - a temporary/travelling exhibition on wheelchairs and crutches and hearing aids and glasses and false teeth, eyepatches, false eyes, prostheses of various kinds, strait jackets etc.
It would be visually quite something.
Kate is responsible for the untoldLondon.org.uk web site which describes where Londoners of many cultural groups can find their histories in the capital.
Key words = museums medhist
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