Medicine Through Time and the Science Museum

This is a letter I wrote to the London Museums of Health and Medicine in relation to a request by the Science Museum for helping in locating teachers to comment on their new Medicine Through Time web site.

'When this project was first mentioned at a LMHM meeting by the Science Museum I did express an opinion at the Meeting that it should have been a joint project between the Museums in the London Museums of Health and Medicine group as Medicine through Time is one of the programmes that is of major importance to our visitor numbers.

I am hoping that the web site will not be designed to Hoover up all school visits to the Science Museum but might be a resource that could benefit all of our museums as cooperation can have great mutual benefits - in fact quite a few schools go to two LMHM Museums.

The London Hub for example has pioneered web resources shared between participating Museums - such as Untold Century and the 20th Century site - and I would have hoped that the Science Museum would follow this route. If it cannot be jointly 'owned' will the content will, at least, be set up to have links to our web sites and resources where appropriate?'

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