Sweden
Urban Josefsson
Opuscula Musealia, Volume 18, Volume 18 (2010), pp. 51 - 60
The University of Uppsala was established by a papal bull in 1477. Over the past five centuries its various departments have collected a vast array of items that have been used for teaching or research. These items bare silent witness to the cultural history of each department and cumulatively of the University itself. Some mark not only fundamental milestones for Uppsala University and for Sweden, but for the history of science as a whole
Urban Josefsson
Opuscula Musealia, Volume 19, Volume 19 (2011), pp. 61 - 69
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843852.OM.11.005.0262
Since August 2008 a project at the Uppsala University Museum, the Museum Gustavianum, has been auditing the
university’s unmanaged departmental collections. Two years into the audit the project has entered into its second phase and in this article we discuss the goals we have in mind as well as some of the problems that we have encountered. By way of two case studies we illustrate the development of the project and finally we discuss the results that we have already achieved as well as those that are expected.