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On the Potential Closing of Museum Boerhaave

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 08:06 AM PDT

At the very fine blog Biomedicine on Display, Thomas Söderqvist (Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen) reports that Museum Boerhaave, one of the most significant science and medicine museums in Northern Europe, is in danger of closing. The city of Leiden, NL, where the Museum is located, is itself hugely significant in the development of Western medicine in the early modern era, and IMO it would be a tremendous loss to historians of science and medicine if the Museum closed.

From the blog post:

Friends of Museum Boerhaave are encouraged to write letters of support to show that the museum is an important part of the international community of science museums. Send your letters to the museum's head of collections, Hans Hooijmaijers, hanshooijmaijers@museumboerhaave.nl.