Programs, Past Meetings
XX, Milan, 2015: Scientific Heritage at World Exhibitions and Beyond, The Long Twentieth Century
SUNDAY, 20 September, Museo Nationale di Storia della Scienza e della Tecnica Leonardo da Vinci
15:00-1530 Registration
15:30-1600 Welcome, Fiorenzo Galli General Director) and Laura Ronzon (Head of collections and curators)
16:00-16:30 Claudio Giorgione (MNST), "Leonardo Da Vinci and Italian Technology on Display: Chicago 1933 and New York 1940 World's Fairs and Milano 1939 Leonardo and Italian Inventions Exhibition” abstract
Discussion
16:30-18:30 Visit to the museum with the curators
18:30-20:30 Reception in the museum with light dinner
MONDAY, 21 September
9:00-10:40 Session1: Between the Legacy of XXth Century Exhiitions and the Search for New Trends
Chair: Paolo Brenni (CNR Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica, Firenze)
Frank Dittmann (Deutsches Museum), "About Generators, Transmission Lines and Light Bulbs" abstract
Marco Beretta (Università di Bologna), "Chemical Heritage at the Musée Centennal of the 1900 Paris World Exhibition" abstract
Discussion
11:00-12:40 Session 2 / Part 1: The Emergence of Scientific Heritage and the Rhetoric of National Science
Chair: Robert Bud (Science Museum)
Francesco Barreca (Museo Galileo), "From Instruments of Science to Instruments of History: The First National Exhibition of the History of Science (Florence, 1929) and the Promotion of the Italian Scientific Heritage" abstract
Pedro M. P. Raposo (Adler Planetarium, Chicago), "The Adler Planetarium and the Century of Progress Fair in Chicago, 1933-34" abstract
Andrée Bergeron and Charlotte Bigg (Centre Alexandre Koyré), "The Early Years of the Palais de la Découverte (1937-1952) in a Transnational Perspective" abstract
Discussion
12:40-14:00 Lunch at the museum
14:00-15:40 Session 2 / Part 2
Chair: Giovanni Paoloni (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza)
Elena Canadelli (Università di Padova), "Science on Display at E42: The Never Realized Exhibitions" abstract
Benjamin Gross (Chemical Heritage Foundation), "The Televisions of Tomorrow: RCA at the New York World's Fair" abstract
Discussion
15:40-16:00 Break
16:00-17:15 Session 3 / Part 1: Postwar: Which Role for Artefacts
Chair: Anna Guagnini (Università di Bologna)
Alison Boyle (Science Museum) "Nuclear Power and National Prestige: A Tale of Two Models" abstract
Nazia Ali (Birmingham Museums Trust), "After the Festival of Britain: The Birth of Birmingham's Science and Industry Collection; its Growth during Industrial Decline; and its Failing Health in Today's New Frontiers" abstract
Bernard Finn (Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History), "Interpretation of Objects Significant to the History of Science and Technology: International Exhibitions vs Museums" abstract
Margrit Wettstein (Nobel Museum), "Alfred Nobel, Nobel Laureates, World's Fairs & the Nobel Center Opening 2019" abstract
Discussion
17:15-18:00 Round-Robin: What's New in Artefacts-Museums?
TUESDAY, 22 September
9:00-11:00 Session 3 / PART 2
Chair: Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum)
Arne Schirrmacher (Deutsches Museum / Scholar-in-Residence, on leave from
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), "North-American World’s Fairs and the Re-Invention of the Science Museum in the 1960s" abstract
Teasel Muir Harmony (American Institute of Physics),"Module And Model: Modifying the 'real' at Expo '70 and the Smithsonian Institution" abstract
Break
Nobumichi Ariga, Osamu Kamei (Japanese National Museum of Nature and Science), "Models of Industrial Complex and Maglev: Japan Pavilion of Expo '70 in the Context of Technological Innovation" abstract
Allan A. Needell (Smithsonian Institution, National Air & Space Museum), "A 50 State Tour and the Origins of the National Apollo 11 Artifacts Collection" abstract
Discussion
Break
11:30-1300 Round-up Session
Robert Friedel (University of Maryland), Commentary
Concluding Discussion
Lunch at the Museum