Web of life: online exhibition projects
13 March 2009
We have funded two online exhibition projects. ‘Brought to Life: Exploring the history of medicine’ is an online multimedia resource aimed at secondary school students and undergraduates. The project features objects - many on view for the first time - from the Wellcome Trust collection held by the Science Museum in London. They cover centuries of medical history from around the world. Subjects include diseases and epidemics, medicine and belief, and the pioneers of medical science.
‘Making Visible Embryos’ is an online exhibition developed by the University of Cambridge, exploring images of embryos, and the issues surrounding their depiction, throughout history. The exhibition aims to illuminate key questions and concerns by contextualising images that have become iconic or were especially widely distributed in their time.
Image: Ernst Heinrich Haeckel's illustrations of embryo development for hog, calf, rabbit and man, 1874. Part of the 'Making Visible Embryos' exhibition.