Research and Museums RAM. Proceedings of an International Symposium in Stockholm 22-25 May 2007.

Publisher's boards, pictorial dustjacket. Very fine. Provenance: Angela Rundquist (1935-3013). Stockholm, Nationalmuseum / Nobelmuseet, 2008. 8vo. 240 pp. Illustrated. Contents: "Research In and Out of Museums: Do Minds Meet?" by Robert Anderson, "Research at Natural History Museums - Materials, Motivation, Methodology" by Stefan Claesson and Johanna Kovar-Eder, "The Future of Museums Lies in Research" by Martin Roth, "Modes, Constraints and Perspectives of Research. The Place of Scholarship at Museums of Science and Technology in a Knowledge-Based Society" by Helmut Trischler, "Time, Sequence, and Research in Museums of Science and Technology" by Robert Friedel, "Research at a National Museum - Random Notes on a Glorious Past or Contributions of International Interest?" by Per Kristian Madsen and Birgit Rønne, "What is research in Art History Anyway?" by Michael Ann Holly, "Against Consensus: Why We Need More Than Two Art Histories" by Michael Hatt, "Towards an Archaeology of Scientific Knowledge: Museums and the History of Science" by Marco Beretta, "L'INHA: au service de l'histoire de l'art" by Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, "Research in English Museums: University and Regional Museums" by Nicholas Mayhew, "Making Sense or Sensing the Made? Research into Presence-Production in Museums of Science, Technology and Medicine" by Thomas Söderqvist and Adam Bencard, "Facts and Artefacts in Cultural HIstory Museums. The Material Turn in Research" by Birgitta Svensson, "A Role for Collections in the Research Agenda of the History of Science?" by Jim Bennet, "Concluding Comments" by Hans Henrik Brummer, and biographical notes. / Extensive cooperation between a number of institutions resulted in an international symposium - Research and Museums (RAM) - held in the premises of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm 22-25 May 2007. The principal organisers were the Nationalmuseum and the Nobel Museum, with the support of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. The symposium, which had an international and interdisciplinary focus, dealt with issues relating to the research activities of museums of scientific history, natural history, fine arts and cultural history. A total of 15 speakers from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the UK, USA and Sweden lectured on the significance of museum collections for research at both museums and university departments. The watchword of the symposium was that research engenders exhibitions which in their turn engender new research. Their contributions, written in English, have been collected in this volume of proceedings published as part of the scholarly series issued by the Nationalmuseum and the Nobel Museum. (Archives of the Nobel Mueum, 11 & Nationalmusei skriftserie N. S. 20.).…