Scientific program • Wednesday, 29 August 2012

       
08.00 - 09.50 Session 2: Museums and history    
Chair B. Kreher-Hartmann (Jena/DE)    
       
08.00 - 08.30 From palaces to museums: Pathways of aristocratic mineral collections to public institutions in Hungary during the 18-19th centuries    
  G. Papp (Budapest/HU)    
       
08.30 - 08.50 The Mineral Collection of the Istituto Tecnico Industriale of Biella; a window on the scientific activity of Quintino Sella    
  C. Ferraris (Paris/FR)    
       
08.50 - 09.10 "The Thames" School of Mines and Mineral Museum mineralogical collection    
  J. Isdale (Thames /NZ)    
       
09.10 - 09.30 History and collections of Mineralogical Museum of Wrocław University (1811-2011)    
  J. Bogdanski, P. Gunia (Wrocław/PL)    
       
09.30 - 09.50 The early 19th century systematic mineral collection of Lady Henrietta Antonia Clive, Countess of Powis: an important new discovery    
  T. Cotterell (Cardiff/GB)    
       
09.50- 10.30 Coffeebreak and Poster    
       
10.30 - 12.10 Session 2: Museums and history    
Chair G. Papp (Budapest/HU)    
       
10.30 - 10.50 Jean Baptiste François Gigot d’Orcy (1733 - 1793) and the beginnings of the Yale Peabody Museum’s mineral collection    
  S. Nicolescu (New Haven/US)    
       
10.50 - 11.10 The life and legacy of the mineralogist Rudolf Ignaz Koechlin (1862 - 1939): An exemplary curator of the famous mineral collection in the Natural History (Court) Museum Vienna    
  V. M. F. Hammer, F. Pertlik (Vienna/AT)    
       
11.10 - 11.30 James Dwight Dana, his son Edward Salisbury Dana and frozen shrimp - the cool mineral connection    
  P. Carr (Wollongong/AU), B. Selleck (Hamilton/US), B. Jones (Wollongong/AU)    
       
11.30 - 11.50 The search of Jacob Berzelius’ German contacts in his mineral collection    
  J. Langhof (Stockholm/SE)    
       
11.50 - 12.10 View of collecting minerals and rocks 225 years before - Adolf Traugott von Gersdorf and his Switzerland journey 1786    
  A. Tietz (Görlitz/DE)    
       
12.10 - 13.10 Lunchbreak    
       
13.10 - 13.50 Session 2: Museums and history    
Chair K. Schürmann (Frankfurt/DE)    
       
13.10 - 13.30 Minerals with Austrian roots    
  R. Krickl, V. M. F. Hammer, F. Pertlik, J. Seidl, N. Vavra (Vienna/AT)    
       
13.30 - 13.50 At the origin of mineral collecting in the Elba Island pegmatites (Tyrrhenian sea, Italy)    
  F. Pezzotta (Milan/IT), L. Touret (Paris/FR)    
       
13.50 - 14.00 Coffeebreak and Poster    
       
14.00 - 15.30 Session 3: Museums and collection management    
Chair K. Thalheim (Dresden/DE)    
       
14.00 - 14.30 Mindat.org - Linking community data and museums    
  J. Ralph (London/GB)    
       
14.30 - 14.50 Mineral museum protocols as a standard for workflows and a support document for activities: A case study    
  R. Alonso-Perez , L. Ford (Cambridge/US)    
       
14.50 - 15.10 Custodianship of Mineralogical and Petrological Research Specimens: are we doing enough?    
  J. Horák , A. Haycock (Cardiff/GB), M. Howe, D. Bailey (Nottingham/GB)    
       
15.10 - 15.30 Preliminary study on foundation of global museum important mineral specimen database    
  L.-F. Yang , H.-L. Zhao (Beijing/CN)    
       
15.30 - 16.15 Coffeebreak and Poster    
       
16.15 - 17.45 Session 4: Museums and society    
Chair R. Schumacher (Bonn/DE)    
       
16.15 - 16.45 The Pleasure and the Pain - The Opening of New Earth Science Galleries in the National Museums Scotland    
  P. Davidson (Edinburgh/GB)    
       
16.45 - 17.05 Geological exhibition redevelopment at Museum Victoria, Australia    
  D. Henry (Melbourne/AU)    
       
17.05 - 17.25 Falling in love with minerals: terra mineralia - a journey to the most beautiful minerals of the world    
  A. Dziwetzki (Freiberg/DE)    
       
17.25 - 17.45 The new Planggenstock quartz exhibit at the Natural History Museum Bern    
  B. A. Hofmann (Bern/CH)    
       
17.45 - 18.00 Coffeebreak    
       
18.00 - 19.00 Session 4: Museums and society    
Chair R. Schumacher (Bonn/DE)    
       
18.00 - 18.20 The Educational Department of the Mineralogical Museum of the Mining School in Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil    
  H. M. P. Roeser (Ouro Preto/BR), K. U. Schuermann (Frankfurt/DE)    
       
18.20 - 18.40 The upcoming 50 years anniversary of the Friends of the Natural History Museum Vienna will be held in 2013    
  V. M. F. Hammer, H. Summesberger (Vienna/AT)    
       
18.40 - 19.00 With a Little Help from My Friends: A 2012 Snapshot of the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) Geology Museum    
  B. Geller (Golden/US)    
       
19.00 - 19.10 Closing Ceremony    
  K. Thalheim (Dresden/DE)    
  J. Schlüter (Hamburg/DE)