[ecrea] Issue 07 of the Science Museum Group Journal is now online

The Spring 2017 issue of the Science Museum Group Journal is on the 
theme of Sound and Vision. Read it online here: 
http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/issues/spring-2017/
Issue 07 of the Journal collects scholarly articles from research 
related to sound and vision from across the Group. Several of these 
focus on sound and visual elements within collections, most of which are 
in store rather than on display. James Mooney, for example, discusses 
sound objects in the collection of composer Hugh Davies, while Joanne 
Gooding looks at a collection of NHS glasses through the lens of design. 
Melissa Dickson’s article takes a single historical object – the 
Ammoniaphone – and looks at how contemporary claims for its 
effectiveness tell us much about Victorian thinking about science and 
the voice. Phillip Roberts, meanwhile, uses a detailed case-study, that 
of Philip Carpenter, to demonstrate the move of early instrument makers 
into the commercially lucrative production of scientific visual toys 
(such as kaleidoscopes and magic lanterns).
  Many of these articles (and the Sound and Vision theme) came out of 
the inaugural Research Conference in September 2016. They are in part 
published now to mark the re-launch of the newly named Science and Media 
Museum in March. Director Jo Quinton-Tulloch introduces the issue and 
rightly draws attention to the importance of the Journal in discussing 
the impact of museums and institutional practice on culture and society. 
Several articles address this historically – for example, Jennifer Rich 
on the history of how the Science Museum has used sound in interpreting 
exhibits, or James Mansell on the wider social and political issues at 
stake within the 1935 Noise Abatement exhibition. But the issue also 
reflects on more recent developments with articles by Elizabeth Edwards, 
Ben Burbridge and Michael Terwey providing different perspectives on the 
move to a more STEM-focused approach at the Science and Media Museum in 
Bradford.
In addition, we have a review of the new Science and Technology 
galleries at National Museums Scotland, and a book review of Nicholas 
Thomas’s The Return of Curiosity. For a 20% discount on the book see the 
news pages of the Journal.

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