Collecting the Boundaries of Art in the Science Museum Group

这个项目对艺术在科学机构中的作用提出了一个新的视角。它将调查一个两面性的问题：像科学博物馆集团这样的博物馆是如何思考艺术并将其概念化的；这些机构的历史及其收藏是如何塑造艺术史学科如何构思科学的视觉文化的。该项目有意跨学科，将博物馆研究和收藏史置于科学史和艺术史之间。专注于档案研究，特别是博物馆文件，这项工作为SMG发展整个集团的艺术愿景做出了及时和重大的贡献。它为学生提供了在SMG博物馆担任策展人的机会，为藏品历史和政策发展做出贡献，以及未来的采购和委托。预计这名学生将在伯克贝克和SMG博物馆度过一段时间，同时驻扎在科学博物馆，并成为英国更广泛的CDP资助学生群体中的一员。他们还有可能(取决于资金)与华盛顿特区史密森国家航空航天博物馆的艺术收藏品馆长合作，对类似的收藏品进行比较研究。

This project proposes a new perspective on the role of arts within a science institution. It will investigate a two-sided question: how have museums like the Science Museum Group thought about and conceptualised art; and how have the histories of such institutions, and their collections, shaped how the discipline of art history has conceived of visual cultures of science. The project is intentionally interdisciplinary, bringing museum studies and histories of collecting to bear on the boundary between history of science and history of art. Focused on archival research, particularly museum files, the work offers a timely and significant contribution to work at SMG to develop a vision for art across the group. It provides opportunity for a student to work in a curatorial capacity across the SMG museums, contributing to collections history and policy development, as well as to future acquisitions and commissioning. The student will be expected to spend time at both Birkbeck and the SMG museums, while being based at the Science Museum, as well as becoming part of the wider cohort of CDP funded students across the UK. They also have the potential (funding depending) to spend time working with the Curator of the Art Collection at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC, to do a comparative study of a comparable collection.