Date and time: Wednesday 16 October 2024, 18:00 BST to 19:15 BST
Attendance and participation: This is a hybrid event. Participants can choose whether they would like to join the event using the online platform or attend in person.
About the event
Join us for the next Cantor Technology Lecture titled ‘From Faraday to AI: Integrating science and technology into the study of museum collections, with Professor Carl Heron’.
“All arts and sciences have a connection with one another, and discoveries in natural philosophy and other branches of speculative knowledge, for the improvement and advancement of which the said museum or collection was intended, do and may give rise to the most useful experiments and inventions.” British Museum Act (1753)
This talk will explore the past, present and future of science and technology in the study of museum collections.
What is the context of these interventions and what have we learned? How do these applications support the wider purposes of museums, such as enhancing access and promoting understanding? What are the opportunities and challenges?
Professor Carl Heron will select relevant examples drawn from the British Museum collection and widen the discussion to other museums and the essential roles they play.
Biography
Professor Carl Heron is Director of Scientific Research at the British Museum. He was appointed in 2016 after 26 years at the University of Bradford.
Carl graduated in Archaeological Sciences at Bradford in 1984. He completed a PhD at University College, Cardiff and spent two years at the University of Liverpool as a postdoctoral researcher before taking up a lectureship at Bradford. Between September 2023 and June 2024, Carl was acting Deputy Director at the British Museum.
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