LEMUR: Learning with Museum Resources
(University of Aberdeen, UK)
This JISC-funded project, which runs from 1 August 2000
through to 31 July 2003, is based at the University of
Aberdeen and is co-ordinated by Neil Curtis (at the
University's Marischal Museum). LEMUR draws upon the
Museum's rich holdings in archaeology, ethnography, fine
art and numismatics - and also upon the University's unique
Natural Philosophy Collection. This collection of apparatus
and instruments in fields such as astronomy, meteorology
and seismology comprises some 2000 items dating from the
late 18th century to the present day.
Aberdeen has a long tradition of using material resources
in teaching. In collaboration with the University's
Learning Technology Unit, the developers of LEMUR aim to
create digitised teaching packages in cultural history,
history of art, physics, and the history of science and
technology focused upon these local museum resources. Those
packages will ultimately be made available over the
internet as part of the DNER (Distributed National
Electronic Resource).
For further information - or to offer suggestions on how
such a resource might be as useful as possible to those
teaching the history of science - please contact Neil
Curtis ([log in to unmask]), or Ben Marsden
([log in to unmask]) (who is working on the history of
science component).
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Dr Ben Marsden
Lecturer in Cultural History
Cultural History Group
University of Aberdeen
Old Brewery
Aberdeen AB24 3UB
Scotland
United Kingdom
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~chs033/
Tel (office): +44 (0) 1224 272637
Tel (messages): +44 (0) 1224 272457
Tel (home): +44 (0) 1224 495939
Fax: +44 (0) 1224 273262
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