Reading the Objects: Developing Online Personal Stories from Australia's 'Museums of Madness', 1870-1980

阅读物品：从澳大利亚“疯狂博物馆”中开发在线个人故事，1870-1980 年

• 批准号: LP0990564
• 负责人: Prof Elizabeth Malcolm
• 金额: $ 8.51万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2009-11-10 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP0990564
• 关键词: Reading; Objects; Developing; Online; Personal

Museum Victoria's Psychiatric Services Collection contains over 1,600 objects from mental hospitals that operated in the state between 1870 and 1980. It is one of the largest collections of its type in the world. As the relative merits of psychiatric institutionalization and community care remain controversial, making digitized images of all these objects available online, accompanied by expert historical commentaries, will not only throw light on the daily lives of patients and staff and the care offered in institutions now largely vanished, but it will also help promote a better informed public debate about this vital area of mental health policy.

维多利亚精神科服务博物馆收藏了1600多件物品，这些物品来自1870年至1980年间在该州运营的精神病院。它是世界上同类藏品中最大的收藏之一。由于精神病院和社区护理的相对优点仍然存在争议，在网上提供所有这些物品的数字化图像，并附有专家的历史评论，不仅会让人们了解病人和工作人员的日常生活，以及现在基本上消失的机构提供的护理，而且还将有助于促进关于精神卫生政策这一重要领域的更有见地的公众辩论。