Gallery Talk: Unpacking a 120-Year-Old Zeiss Photographic Microscope

Date: 

Tuesday, June 14, 2022, 12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Curator Sara Schechner, from Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, and Lynette Roth, curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, will team up to explore a 120-year-old Zeiss photographic microscope. The curators will look at the assemblage of its various parts and share with visitors what they tell us about how scientists work with such a microscope. Its diverse components, housed in a wooden case, reveal not only the technical challenges of taking photographs through a microscope lens, but also the instrument’s inherent social, cultural, and aesthetic connections.

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