UMAC Worldwide Database of University Museums & Collections

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The Database University Museums & Collections Worldwide aims at providing a global Directory of University Museums and Collections to be used by UMAC, researchers, students, and the general public worldwide.

This Database is an initiative of the International Committee for University Museums & Collections (UMAC) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). It is being developed by UMAC’s Working Group Directories, which is collecting information about other existing directories, catalogues and inventories.

The Database is based on two major pre-existing databases of university museums and collections:

German University Museums and Collections Database (Universitätsmuseen und -sammlungen in Deutschland), developed by Cornelia Weber (Humboldt University of Berlin & Chair of UMAC’s Working Group Directories);
UMAC/Macquarie Database, developed by Peter Stanbury (Macquarie University, Australia, & Chair of UMAC, http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/mcm/world/menu.html).

Apart from these two databases many other sources are being used for the initial data collecting. And of course, there are a lot of people involved in this project.

Contact

For further questions, please contact Dr. Cornelia Weber at the Humboldt-University of Berlin:

weber@mathematik.hu-berlin.de

In case of technical questions or problems, please direct your enquiry to martin.stricker@rz.hu-berlin.de.

Acknowledgements

A collaborative project such as the UMAC Database would not be possible without the valuable contribution of specialists from different countries at different moments – either providing the information, allowing data reproduction, collecting data or entering the records:

Laura Adam (Scotland)
Adriana Mortara Almeida (Brazil)
Janine Andrews (Canada)
Rita Caré (Portugal)
Steven W.G. de Clercq (Netherlands)
Bernard Van den Driessche (Belgium)
Ana P. Labrador (Philippines)
Michèle Loneaux (Belgium)
Luis Malaga (Peru)
Maria Marco (Spain)
Geoffrey Metz (Sweden)
Nathalie Nyst (Belgium)
Kate Orman (Australia)
Sébastien Soubiren (France)
Pasquale Tucci (Italy)
Robin Walsh (Australia)
J. Warren (UK)

Since the database is an ongoing process, a word of gratitude is also due to all future contributions.

Printed Sources

Brasil:

Lourenço, Maria Cecília França (org) 2000. Guia de Museus Brasileiros. EDUSP/Imprensa Oficial, São Paulo.

Europe:

Botanische Gärten Mitteleuropas. Geschichte, technische Einrichtungen, Anlagen, Sammlungen und Aufgaben. 1990. Ed. by Friedrich Ebel, Fritz Kümmel, Christine Beierlein. 2nd enl. ed., Halle (Wissenschaftliche Beiträge der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 27).

Germany:

Emporium. 500 Jahre Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Landesausstellung Sachsen-Anhalt 2002. 2002. Gunnar Berg et al. (Ed.) Halle.

Die archäologischen Universitätssammlungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland mit Berlin (West), in Österreich und in der Schweiz. Zusammengestellt von Gertrud Platz-Horster. Hrsg. vom Vorstand des Deutschen Archäologen-Verbandes e.V. Mainz 1983 (Schriften des Deutschen Archäologen-Verbandes e.V. IV).

Ulrich Jansen & Fritz Steininger (Eds) 2002. Die paläontologischen Sammlungen in Deutschland - Inhalte, Erfassung und Gefährdung. Stuttgart (Kleine Senckenberg-Reihe Nr. 42).

Museen der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität. Münster 1993. Rektorin der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Ed.). Münster.

Kulturbesitz und Sammlungen der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität. Greifswald 1995. Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Ed). Rostock.

Sammlungen und Kunstbesitz der Technischen Universität. Dresden 1996. Technische Universität Dresden. Leipzig & Dresden.

„Ganz für das Studium angelegt“. Die Museen, Sammlungen und Gärten der Universität Göttingen. 2001. Dietrich Hoffmann & Kathrin Maack-Rheinländer (Ed.). Göttingen.

Theater der Natur und Kunst/Theatrum naturae et artis. Wunderkammern des Wissens. Katalog, Essays, Dokumentation. 2000-2001. Horst Bredekamp, Jochen Brüning & Cornelia Weber (Eds.). Berlin.

Japan:

Directory of Museums, Vol. 1, University Museums, Tokyo, 1997.
A hard copy of the Directory of Museums is available by writing to: Ms Hashimoto Tomoko, Total Media Development Institute Co., Ltd. 3-23, Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102, JAPAN (fax : +81 3 3221 5521 or email : t-hashimoto@totalmedia.co.jp).

The Netherlands:

Om het Academisch Erfgoed, 1996, RBK Adviesgroep, Den Haag.

New Zealand:

Survey of University Databases, Collections and Archives published by the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee, 1994 (Editor: S.N. McCutcheon).

UK:

Arnold-Forster, Kate 1989. The collections of the University of London. A report and survey of the Museums, Teaching and Research Collections administered by the University of London. London Museums Service, London.

Arnold-Forster, Kate 1993. Held in Trust: Museums and Collections of Universities in Northern England. HMSO, London.

Arnold-Forster, Kate 1999. Beyond the Ark: Museums and Collections of Higher Education Institutions in Southern England. Southern Museums Agency.

Arnold-Forster, Kate & Jane Weeks 1999. Minerals and Magic Lanterns. The University and College Collections of the South West. South West Museums Council, Sommerset.

Arnold-Forster, Kate & Jane Weeks 2000. Totems and trifles: museums and collections of higher education institutions in the Midlands. West Midlands regional Museums Council, Bromsgrove.

Arnold-Forster, Kate & Jane Weeks 2001. A review of Museums and collections of Higher Education Institutions in the Eastern Region and the South East Region of the South Eastern Museums Service. South Eastern Museums Service, Bury St Edmunds.

Bass, Helen 1984. Survey of University Museums in South Eastern England. Area Museums Service for South Eastern England, Milton Keynes.

Drysdale, Laura 1990. A World of Learning: University Collections in Scotland. HMSO, Scotland.

USA:

Danilov, Victor J. (1996). University and college museums, galleries, and related facilities – A descriptive directory. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut.

Russell, John J. & Thomas S. Spencer 2000. Art on campus – The College Art Association’s Official Guide to American College and University Art Museums and Exhibition Galleries. Friar’s Lantern, Monkton, Maryland.

Web Sources

Most of the information provided in the Database originates from the websites of the institutions concerned, as well as from web directories. Some of the web sources consulted are listed below:

Country Index of University Museums (hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/mus/count.htm

Historical Anatomies on the Web
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/home.html

Botanical Gardens (Gardens of the Blue Planet)
http://www.spacebox.org/herbs/gardens.htm

Botanical Garden Information System
http://www.biologie.uni-ulm.de/systax/infgard/gardens/

Association Internationale pour la Conservation et la Promotion des Moulages
http://www.muse.ucl.ac.be/Castlisting/

Australian University Museums Information System (AUMIS)
http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/mcm/aumis/
Contact: Peter Stanbury (Peter.Stanbury@vc.mq.edu.au)

European University Association
http://www.eua.be/eua/

BioCASE - Biological Collection Access Service for Europe
http://biocase.org

European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences
http://www.aemhsm.org/

CETAF – Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities
http://www.cetaf.org/

Guia dos Museus do Brasil
http://www.jae.com.br/Museu/museu.htm

Canadian Universities
http://www.aucc.ca/can_uni/search/index_e.html

Guide to Canadian Museums and Galleries
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Museum/index_flash.html

Musei Universitari (Italia)
http://www1.crui.it/musei/

Korean Association of University Museums
http://www.kaum.or.kr/english/1/index3.htm

Universities in New Zealand
http://www.nzvcc.ac.nz/intern/Education.html#unis

Guia Prática de los Museos del Perú
http://www.unfv-bib.edu.pe/patrimonio_cultural/museos/museo001.htm

Spanish Universities
http://www.rediris.es/recursos/centros/univ.es.html

Universia (España)
http://www.universia.es/contenidos/cultura/Museosuniversitarios.htm

Cornucopia Database of Museum Collections
http://www.cornucopia.org.uk/

UK South West Museums, Libraries & Archives Council (SWMLAC)
http://www.swmlac.org.uk/

University museums in Scotland (UMIS)
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/umis/

Zentralregister biologischer Forschungssammlungen in Deutschland (ZEFOD)
http://ice.zadi.de/zefod/projekt.cfm

Mineralogische Museen und Universitätssammlungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~Mineralogische.Staatssammlung/museen.htm

Department of Museums and Collections Services, University of Alberta
http://www.museums.ualberta.ca

Museums at the University of Amsterdam
http://www.uba.uva.nl/musea/object.cfm

Università degli Studi di Bologna, Sistema Museale d’Ateneo
http://www2.unibo.it/musei-universitari/

Museums and Collections at the University of Bonn, Germany
http://www.uni-bonn.de/Die_Universitaet/Museen.html

Museums and Collections at the Technical University Dresden, Germany
http://www.tu-dresden.de/kustodie/kustodie/kustodie.htm

Museums and Collections at the University of Halle, Germany
http://www.uni-halle.de/MLU/einrichtungen/sammlungen.htm

Sammlungen und Museen der Ruprechts-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/univ/museen/

Naturwissenschaftliche Museen und Sammlungen der Universität Hamburg
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/uhh/museen-sammlungen.html

Museums at University College London
http://collections.ucl.ac.uk

Museums and Collections at Macquarie University, Australia
http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/mcm/

Università degli Studi di Milano, Sistema Museale d’Ateneo
http://www.unimi.it/ateneo/musei/

Museums at the University of Rome "La Sapienza"
http://www.uniroma1.it/musei/index.htm

Museums and Collections at the University of Sydney, Australia
http://www.usyd.edu.au/about/organisation/pub/galleries.shtml

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