Programs, Past Meetings

VII London, 2002: Space

SUNDAY, 3 November

14.30-15.45 Brian Durrans (British Museum), Tour of The Great Court British Museum

16.30-17.45 Doug Millard (Science Museum), Tour of the Space Gallery, Science Museum

18.30-19.30 Reception in“Making the Modem World” exhibit in Science Museum

MONDAY, 4 November


CD Seminar Room

Session 1. Chair: Barney Finn (Smithsonian, National Museum of American History)

09.30-10.00 Robert Bud and Derek Robinson (Science Museum) “Welcome and review of Artefacts VI”

10.00-10.40 Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum), “Tensions of Europe: The German contribution to the ELDO--A launcher”

10:40-1:20 Doug Millard (Science Museum), “Black Arrow”

11.20-11.35 coffee

11.35-12.15 Matthew Godwin (Science Museum), “Between Military and Meteorology: The Skylark Missile”

12:15-14:00 Lunch

Session 2. Chair Jobst Broelmann (Deutsches Museum)

14.00-14.45 Brian Durrans, “Space is the Place”

14.45-15.30 David Devorkin (Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum), “Exploring the Universe with Artefacts”

15.30-16.15 Martin Collins (Smithsonian, NASM), “Satellite Telephone Dreams: Design and Manufacture as the Foundation for Iridium's Global Ambitions”

16.15-16.30 Tea

16.30-17.00 Hans Weinberger (KTH--Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm), “Reflections on the papers and discussion”

17.00-17.30 Matthias Knopp and Walter Rathjen (Deutsches Museum), “Review of the Science Museum exhibition on Space”

Dinner at Dacquise as guests of Science Museum

TUESDAY, 5 NOVEMBER

Sesion 3. Chair: Helmuth Trischler. Symposium on museum as virtual entity: multimedia and research

10.00-10.15 Uif Hashagen (Deutsches Museum), “Object-related research at the Deutsches Museum”

10.15-10.30 Barney Finn (Smithsonian, NMAH), “The implications of multimedia for research”

10.30-10.45 Robert Bud, ”Projects at the Science Museum”

10.45-11.00 Andrew Nahum (Science Museum), “Assembling a multimedia presentation on the V2”

11.00-11.15 General discussion of multimedia

11.15-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.00 Programmes and Projects

12.00-13.00 General Developments at the Deutsches Museum, NMAH, Science Museum
Oscar Blumtritt, Barney Finn, Tim Boon (Science Museum)

12.30- 14.00 Lunch