Today was spent preparing the collection for the reopening of the Object Based Learning Lab. The OBLL has been closed this year for #ucl200 renovations.

Here is Charles Darwin's cloak buckle before remounting (which was very fiddly). Along with a lovely old label.
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Object Based learning session using the phrenology collection today. This cast is from a series depicting the 'intellectual' and 'criminal' type c.1840s #phrenology #historyofscience #uclsciencecollections #pseudoscience

Bárány’s Box: Producing controlled sound stimuli for testing hearing How does the Bárány Soundbox work? Find out more about this 1900 clockwork hearing test from the UCL History of Science Collection.

First in a series of blog posts focusing on UCL's physiology collections for @physoc.bsky.social
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