New Perspectives: Exploring the potential for the Natural History Museum collections as a resource for arts and humanities research

新视角：探索自然历史博物馆藏品作为艺术和人文研究资源的潜力

• 批准号: AH/F001177/1
• 负责人: Brian Cathcart
• 金额: $ 2.07万
• 依托单位: Kingston University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF001177%2F1
• 关键词: New; Perspectives; Exploring; potential; Natural

The Natural History Museum (NHM) houses a magnificent collection of 70 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils and minerals collected from around the world. In addition to the scientific collections the Museum also maintains a major library, extensive art collections and an important archive. The Museum is a major tourist attraction and is committed to a public programme of exhibitions and educational work with schools and life long learners. It is also internationally recognised as a centre of excellence for the quality of its curatorial and scientific research. This project aims via a new collaboration between Kingston University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) and the Natural History Museum (NHM) to explore how the Museum's rich and unique collections could be further exploited by the wider arts and humanities research community. FASS will facilitate a fresh and innovative approach to the NHM collections encouraging new and emerging areas of interdisciplinary academic research. This will be achieved through the establishment of an Advisory Group of invited experts and two Research Workshops. The first workshop will explore the potential areas of research subjects, the second workshop will concentrate on how the outcomes of such research could be made available to the public. The outcome of the project will be a report proposing a set of interdisciplinary research themes for consideration by Museum management. The themes will encourage knowledge exchange and contribute to our understanding of natural history collections. Central to the project will be the recognition that proposed interdisciplinary research should complement the Natural History Museum's current corporate plans and be able to make a real contribution to public events and learning activities held in the Museum. The implementation of such research would provide HEIs with an unrivalled access to the Museum, its history, exhibitions and collections and make available the results of such research to a large and varied public audience. The Advisory Group will also consider the potential benefits of establishing a Centre of Historical and Cultural Research at the NHM as a means to manage and develop such future research.

自然历史博物馆（NHM）收藏了从世界各地收集的7000万种植物，动物，化石和矿物标本。除了科学收藏，博物馆还拥有一个大型图书馆，广泛的艺术收藏和重要的档案馆。该博物馆是一个主要的旅游景点，并致力于与学校和终身学习者的展览和教育工作的公共计划。它也是国际公认的卓越中心，其策展和科学研究的质量。该项目旨在通过金斯顿大学艺术与社会科学学院（FASS）和自然历史博物馆（NHM）之间的新合作，探索博物馆丰富而独特的藏品如何被更广泛的艺术和人文研究界进一步利用。FASS将促进新的和创新的方法来NHM收藏鼓励新的和新兴的跨学科学术研究领域。为此，将设立一个由特邀专家组成的咨询小组和两个研究讲习班。第一个讲习班将探讨研究课题的潜在领域，第二个讲习班将集中讨论如何向公众提供这种研究的成果。该项目的成果将是一份报告，提出一套跨学科的研究主题，供博物馆管理层考虑。这些主题将鼓励知识交流，并有助于我们对自然历史藏品的理解。该项目的核心是认识到，拟议的跨学科研究应补充自然历史博物馆目前的企业计划，并能够为博物馆举办的公共活动和学习活动做出真实的贡献。进行这类研究，可为高等院校提供一个接触博物馆、其历史、展览和藏品的最佳途径，并可向众多不同的公众人士提供这类研究的结果。咨询小组还将考虑在国家博物馆建立一个历史和文化研究中心的潜在好处，作为管理和发展这种未来研究的一种手段。