London Museums of Health and Medicine AGM
I attended the AGM of the London Museums of Health and Medicine at the Dana Centre yesterday afternoon. A very good turn out and its good to see that the network is beginning to become more proactive after a few years of resting on its laurels. The main work of the museum network has been the production of a joint leaflet and general networking, which it has done really well. However, the group is now looking at other joint activities such as a joint events programme, and creating some resources on the web site.
Robert Bud and his team reported on the Science Museum's projects in particular a new project called 'Sickness and Health' to create a new web resource for the 'Medicine through time' curriculum and for Medical Students. He reported there were 60,000 school children doing 'Medicine through time'. The core of the project is digitising 4,000 new images from the Wellcome Collection, there would be a user interaction (wiki type) area of the site. He reported that it was not a networked project which he regretted but he felt the time for that was in a few years time. I suggested that it would be an ideal opportunity for a national museum to fulfil its brief to work with smaller museums particularly as 'Medicine Through Time' is so important to us. He suggested there would be web links.
I reported on the proposed medical trail which the 24hr Museum has agreed to host. Sue Weir and I wrote the draft and this is soon to go live. I also reported on the London Museums Group.
Robert Bud and his team reported on the Science Museum's projects in particular a new project called 'Sickness and Health' to create a new web resource for the 'Medicine through time' curriculum and for Medical Students. He reported there were 60,000 school children doing 'Medicine through time'. The core of the project is digitising 4,000 new images from the Wellcome Collection, there would be a user interaction (wiki type) area of the site. He reported that it was not a networked project which he regretted but he felt the time for that was in a few years time. I suggested that it would be an ideal opportunity for a national museum to fulfil its brief to work with smaller museums particularly as 'Medicine Through Time' is so important to us. He suggested there would be web links.
I reported on the proposed medical trail which the 24hr Museum has agreed to host. Sue Weir and I wrote the draft and this is soon to go live. I also reported on the London Museums Group.
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