While conducting research for an exhibition on Edvard Munch and medicine, I was rummaging around in boxes recently transferred from the state hospital (Rikshospitalet) to the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology (Teknisk Museum) when I came across this collection of historical surgical instruments. The tags indicate that they were part of a teaching collection, but the objects appear to have been hastily boxed up and are now detached from their inventory. A poetic jumble of objects, they speak of a medical past that is in danger of being lost as medical collections are consolidated, dispersed, and even destroyed.
Submission Year:
2017-18
Photographer's affiliation:
Faculty
Academic areas:
Arts and Science
Art of Research categories:
Out in the field
Photo:
Categories:
Faculty / Researcher
Faculty of Arts and Science
Department of Art History and Art Conservation
Mobilizing Creativity and Enabling Cultures
Society, Culture and Human Behaviour
Location of photograph:
Oslo, Norway
Photographer's name:
Allison Morehead
Display Photographers Affiltion + Faculty or Department:
Faculty, Art History and Art Conservation