Teaching AIDS Objects
In a chapter in the new book Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism, Manon Parry and Hugo Schalkwijk describe several challenges for collecting and exhibiting the… Read More »Teaching AIDS Objects
HIV/AIDS
Upcoming Lecture: The Contemporary Relevance of Medical Heritage
Dutch follows English below: Medical museums can play a major role in society by contributing to health and wellbeing. There are over 240 museums displaying… Read More »Upcoming Lecture: The Contemporary Relevance of Medical Heritage
Voices of the Epidemic
It has been more than thirty years since people were first diagnosed with AIDS in the Netherlands. Since then, we have learnt how to prevent… Read More »Voices of the Epidemic
Human Curiosities
A €315,000 research project studying the social relevance of medical museums, culminates in a book and exhibition at Special Collections, University of Amsterdam. While the… Read More »Human Curiosities