Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg: The South Sea in the North Sea

For most of the academic year 2019-2020 I have been effecting research on the Museum Godeffroy as a Petra Kappert Visiting Research Fellow with the University of Hamburg’s Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures.

Exhibition Histories in Science and Technology

Exhibition histories as a form began to appear in several disciplines at once in quick succession at the end of the 1990s.

Politics of Natural History

Natural historical materials, beyond the more obvious case…