College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Time Travel with Collections
Section Event
How can you challenge yourself to use museum collections to reimagine historical moments that were never recorded in the archives? Or use your collections to enable your visitors to cultivate the thinking skill of historical empathy?
About the Event:
Led by Senior Director of Collections Erin McLeary and Senior Director of Interpretation Sara Ray, the Radbill Lecture is a hands-on workshop using the Mütter Museum's large collection of wax and plaster medical teaching models and historical medical instrumentation to help attendees explore different creative methods for imagining historical encounters from different perspectives and for cultivating the key historical thinking skills of context, causality, complexity, and contingency.
This is a participatory event, so attendees should bring a writing instrument of their choice, such as a laptop, tablet, or pen/pencil and notebook.
Event Timeline:
5:30 PM – Doors Open
6:00 PM – Program Begins
This event is sponsored by the Radbill Lectureship Fund.
NOTE: By entering the event premises, you consent to photography, audio recording, video recording, and its release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction to be used for news, promotional purposes, advertising, inclusion on websites, social media, or any other purpose by The College of Physicians/The Mütter Museum and its affiliates and representatives. Tickets are nonrefundable but can be transferred to other people.