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标题：Past and current identity of the Zoology Museum of Ghent University
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作者：Dominick Verschelde ; Dominique Adriaens
期刊名称：University Museums and Collections Journal
电子版ISSN：2071-7229
出版年度：2012
卷号：5
页码：39-46
出版社：International Committee for University Museums and Collections
摘要：This paper investigates the history and aim of the Ghent University Zoology Museum on a whole, and looks at the achievements of its more interesting directors and curators in specific. In 1817 Ghent University purchased a natural history collection in order to illustrate the lectures. Anatomy and zoology were taught in sciences and medicine by people of importance to the university, and the Flemish community. The paper stresses on the specific views of the directors, e.g. Professor F. Plateau was convinced that anatomy was best studied by dissecting animals yourself. Very important to the University, Flemish community and the city of Ghent, McLeod introduced Dutch as the teaching language. This didactic collection struggled between the Great War and World War II, but from the late 1990s evolved into a museum on demand, introducing science communication within and outside the university, and eventually growing into a workshop centre promoting the scientific method and critical reasoning.
关键词：community; scientific method; natural history