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Historian and curator. Museums, Victorians, and medicine.
Currently curator at Thackray Museum of Medicine
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That's compared to a national average of 46%.
Only people in Plymouth and Milton Keynes knew their blood less than we did here.
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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath) is found in lots of plants in the nightshade family. As well as being good for nausea, it has also been used for its psychoactive effect in rituals around the world.
So, good for both making witches fly their broomsticks and curing their motion sickness when doing so.
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Working with Curating for Change also allowed us to have full audio description and British Sign Language interpretation for this display, which was a first for the museum and hopefully something we can build on.
thackraymuseum.co.uk/dressing-dis...
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It's presumably just a not too smart bot.
But flagging accessible fashion as "adult content" is not really a good look!
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One of our other expert advisors for the POO! exhibition cited this
www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/20...
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We did make some AI pills for this exhibition (images generated on Midjourney and then printed with a 3D printer), but this was specifically to interpret how generative AI and 3D printing are being used to develop new drugs. In this case the form fit the function. #AImuseumsMW
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On its introduction in January 2021, the Jinja de Kenketsu ("Blood Donation at Shrines") campaign drew 150 donors in one weekend at the Okunitama Shrine in Fuchu, Tokyo.
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You too can still explore the digital ghost of a fun past showcase of pills, eyes, and "the pissing evil" via this link
my.matterport.com/show/?m=YLv8...
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Blood transfusions and blood groups were sufficiently important to them that members of the Waffen-SS could be recognised by their 'Blutgruppentätowierung' (blood group tattoos). Post-war, this proved quite useful in identifying war criminals.
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The Nazis were fixated with ideas of 'blood purity' and attempted to use emerging understanding of blood grouping to add a pseudo-scientific veneer to their racist hierarchies.
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Comments on the museum's Instagram: "only women can carry a baby"
Meanwhile, in the museum's Victorian collection: