TY - JOUR TI - The “Academic Museum” – Göttingen’s University Collection as a space of knowledge production and cultural heritage AU - Allemeyer, Marie Luisa AU - Collet, Dominik AU - Füssel, Marian TI - The “Academic Museum” – Göttingen’s University Collection as a space of knowledge production and cultural heritage AB - The “Academic Museum” constitutes a crucial locale for a new history of science. As a space of academic self-fashioning and self-affirmation, it can illustrate historical concepts of objectivity, cultures of evidence or the performance of knowledge. University collections delineate emerging academic disciplines and allow scientists to use material culture in order to mark out their professional identities. Accordingly, the “Academic Museum” can be investigated as accumulated cultural capital for academics and their scientific fields. Museum” can be investigated as accumulated cultural capital for academics and their scientific fields VL - Volume 18 (2010) IS - Volume 18 PY - 2011 SN - 0239-9989 C1 - 2084-3852 SP - 15 EP - 22 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/opuscula-musealia/article/the-academic-museum-gottingens-university-collection-as-a-space-of-knowledge-production-and-cultural-heritage KW - museums; university museums; university collections