Beyond curiosity and wonder—understanding the Museum Stobaeanum
The aim of this project is to generate much needed knowledge about the content, the collecting practices and global networks that led to the creation and development of the Museum Stobaeanum, one of Sweden's most important early modern Cabinet of Curiosities which grew into a substantial historic, ethnographic and natural science collection from the 18th to the mid-20th century.
The Museum Stobaeanum offers an excellent lens through which to understand the changing global networks of Sweden and the shifting ideas about how to represent the "total world" in a museum. Our research will pay special attention to the gendered and affective nature of collecting patronage networks and objects.
The project's results will be made available to a diverse general and scholarly audience through a dedicated website (in Swedish and English) that showcases the objects and research results, through international research workshops, a public education program at the museum and publications. The project's activities and international collaboration will promote large scale research partnerships with international museums and research institutions in order to identify artefacts in the collections and reconstruct their histories. The project will create sustainable research and public outreach forums that will continue after its formal completion.
The Museum Stobaeanum offers an excellent lens through which to understand the changing global networks of Sweden and the shifting ideas about how to represent the "total world" in a museum. Our research will pay special attention to the gendered and affective nature of collecting patronage networks and objects.
The project's results will be made available to a diverse general and scholarly audience through a dedicated website (in Swedish and English) that showcases the objects and research results, through international research workshops, a public education program at the museum and publications. The project's activities and international collaboration will promote large scale research partnerships with international museums and research institutions in order to identify artefacts in the collections and reconstruct their histories. The project will create sustainable research and public outreach forums that will continue after its formal completion.
Final report
The aim of this project was to generate knowledge about the content, the collecting practices and global networks that led to the creation and development of the Museum Stobaeanum, one of Sweden's most important early modern Cabinet of Curiosities which grew into a substantial historic, ethno-graphic and natural science collection from the 18th to the mid-20th century.
The Museum Stobaeanum offers an excellent lens through which to understand the changing global networks of Sweden and the shifting ideas about how to represent the "total world" in a museum.
The project's results have been made available open access to a diverse general and scholarly audience through a dedicated website (in Swedish and English) that showcases the objects and research results, through international research workshops, a public education program at the museum and publications. The project's activities and international partnerships with international museums and research institutions have been conducted in order to identify artefacts in the collections and reconstruct their histories.
The purpose of the project was:
1. Analyzing Kilian Stobaeus as a collector.
2. The history of the collection after Stobaeus death
3. Establish a new exhibition of Stobaeus collections at the Lund University Historical Museum.
All these three purposes have been met thru publications, international conferences and workshops and finally an exhibition that will open in the fall of 2022.
The Museum Stobaeanum offers an excellent lens through which to understand the changing global networks of Sweden and the shifting ideas about how to represent the "total world" in a museum.
The project's results have been made available open access to a diverse general and scholarly audience through a dedicated website (in Swedish and English) that showcases the objects and research results, through international research workshops, a public education program at the museum and publications. The project's activities and international partnerships with international museums and research institutions have been conducted in order to identify artefacts in the collections and reconstruct their histories.
The purpose of the project was:
1. Analyzing Kilian Stobaeus as a collector.
2. The history of the collection after Stobaeus death
3. Establish a new exhibition of Stobaeus collections at the Lund University Historical Museum.
All these three purposes have been met thru publications, international conferences and workshops and finally an exhibition that will open in the fall of 2022.