Author: John Holmes

Thanks again from the Symbiosis network as a whole to Robert Lindner and Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel for hosting such an excellent conference across five days, three cities and at least four museums. And thanks too for sharing these photographs of the conference itself:

Here is the programme for the 2025 Symbiosis conference, which has now been finalised: Many thanks to Robert Lindner and Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel for taking on the organisation of the conference and pulling together such an exciting and stimulating programme. If you have not yet registered to attend the conference and would like to join us, … Continue reading “Symbiosis 2025 – full programme and final chance to register”

Here is the provisional programme for the 2025 Symbiosis conference, to be held in Austria on 3-7 November 2025 at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Haus der Natur in Salzburg and Schloss Ambras in Innsbruck, along with registration and other details.

We are delighted to announce that the next Symbiosis conference, on the theme of Envisioning Natural Histories, will be held in Austria on 3-7 November 2025 at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Haus der Natur in Salzburg and Schloss Ambras in Innsbruck. To find out more, including how let us know if you are … Continue reading “Symbiosis 2025”

Christian Hottin has published an article reporting on the conference in Paris last May on Curating and Exhibiting Geology. Past Practices and Future Challenges, co-organised by the National Museum of Natural History, the Alexandre Koyré Centre and Symbiosis. Here is his report, included in a special issue of Livraisons d’Histoire de l’Architecture on ‘The Architectural … Continue reading “Report on Paris conference”

Helen Goulston has just completed and launched a new online guide to the interior of the Oxford University Museum. To explore this wonderful new resource, click on this link: Design and Decoration | Oxford University Museum of Natural History Helen is completing her PhD on the museum’s interior design as a Collaborative Doctoral Student based … Continue reading “New online guide to the art and architecture of Oxford University Museum”

Thanks to everyone who took part in the Symbiosis workshop on Curating and Exhibiting Geology at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle this week. Here we all are on the steps of the galerie de Minéralogie et de Géologie which is about to embark on an exciting major renovation project, culminating in the entire reopening to … Continue reading “Symbiosis workshop in Paris”

Symbiosis is co-organising a workshop on ‘Curating and Exhibiting Geology: Past Practices and Future Challenges’ at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle in Paris on 21-23 May 2024 in collaboration with the Muséum, the Maison Française d’Oxford and other partners. Click below to download the full programme, including an email for registration:

The first New Zealand Diary by Ferdinand von Hochstetter, founder of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, is now published. The geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829 -1884) is only one of the central figures in the history of Austrian science. His stay in New Zealand as part of the circumnavigation of the world by the … Continue reading “Ferdinand von Hochstetter’s New Zealand Diary published”