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Online exhibit: Laboratorio Chimico (Lisboa University Museum of Science, Portugal)

• Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:50:53 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject: Online exhibit: Laboratorio Chimico (Lisboa University Museum of Science, Portugal)
• Message-ID: SIMEON.10105101253.D@bio-s-his008.library.ucla.edu

Forwarded to STHC-L from _rete_.  The discussion on that list was about 
collections of chemicals in museums; the online exhibit may be of 
particular interest to STHC-Lers for its recent and 19th 
century photographs which document the history of a teaching laboratory 
which saw uninterrupted use for over 150 years.


Russell Johnson

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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:17:09 +0100
From: Graca Ramalho <gramalho@museu-de-ciencia.ul.pt>
Subject: Chemistry collections
To: Rete <rete@mhs.ox.ac.uk>

Dear Deborah,

The Museum of Science of the University of Lisbon has inherited the 19th
century chemistry laboratory of the former Polytechnics School (the
Museum is located in the P.School former building) and with it, the
equipment, chemistry instruments and the chemicals, used in the lessons
and in the research works that took place in the lab.
In April 1890 A.W. Hofmann visited the Laboratorio Chimico, in Lisbon,
and declared (in a published letter) that it was one of the best he knew
both for teaching and research. He saw it has a wonderful association of
elegance with funcionality.
The chemicals, mostly kept in the original bottles with the ancient
labels, are partly, in the inventory of the Museum, but we are 
discovering now a lot more in

ancient cabinets and cases, as we are "cleaning" the old premises for
the restoration work which will take place soon. These important
historical collection from the 19th and early 20th centuries, will be
studied and shown to the visitors, in the original laboratory where the
students and teachers used to work, in the real atmosphere of the 19th
century.
You'll find more information at:

http://www.museu-de-ciencia.ul.pt/lab/indexe.html

and you are wellcome to contact us.
Best regards,

Graca Ramalho
Museu de Ciência da Universidade de Lisboa
R. da Escola Politécnica, 56
P-1250-102 Lisboa
Tel. +351 21 392 1858/08
Fax +351 21 390 9326
E-mail: gramalho@museu-de-ciencia.ul.pt

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