A new symposium on scientific collections in progress will be held at UNLP

With the goal of exchanging ideas on how to build museum collections, a “Scientific Collections in Motion” symposium will be held on Tuesday, November 28, at the College of Natural Sciences and Museum at 60th and 122nd Streets. Provincial Museums, Archives and Collecting Practices (1800-1950)”. The appointment is from 9:30 am to 4 pm in the lecture hall on the ground floor of the study house located at 122 and 60.

The SciCoMove project focuses on studying scientific exchanges. This proposal offers a more complex vision of the history of the paleontological, anthropological, entomological and botanical collections of museums in Europe and Latin America.

“This symposium, held in person and virtually, and open to the public, is the third that we have conducted in La Plata within the framework of SciCoMove, a European project I co-direct with Nathalie Richard. It is dedicated to the history of scientific collections exchanged between museums and individuals located in the cities of the province. Today’s diary Irina Podgorny, Doctor of Natural Sciences from UNLP.

He expands: “It is a meeting between the two La Plata teams (CONSET and UNLP) and a series of researchers who are visiting us: Juliana Morselli, from Brazil; Nathalie Richard, co-director of the project, and Franck Laurent, both from Le Mans University; José Pardo Tomás, historian of science and researcher at the Spanish CSIC based in Barcelona, ​​and Laura Chazaro, at the Mexican Cinefest, specializes in the history of scientific instruments.

The seminar will be in English, free of charge and without registration. It is organized by the Historical Archive of the La Plata Museum and the Rise SciCoMove project, funded by the European Union through the Horizon 2020 scientific research and innovation program and supported by Marie Sklodowska-Curie. Additionally, it will be broadcast online on the La Plata Museum’s YouTube channel.