Collections Blog

Our oral history collection can help students reframe their images of scientists—and of themselves.

How protected lands inspire scientific pursuits.

Chaim Weizmann, Fritz Haber, and a home for Jewish scientists.

Discovering the history of umami in the Science History Institute’s archives.

Using digitized items and their data to take a global journey.

On the appeal of decorative scientific book cloth bindings.

Material evidence for a Frankfurt second edition of ‘Utriusque cosmi maioris.’

Most object labels tell us what something is. Why one in our collections tells us what something is not.

The correspondence of Ernst Berl and the Bredig family.

How chemistry offered an international path to survival.

Racialized and economically oppressed children are disproportionately poisoned by lead’s remnants in the built environment.

Deciphering Old German Script in the Bredig Archives.

Two humorous poems illuminate the politics of science funding in the 1950s.

The CD drive, that is. Meet some of our newest born-digital collections.

Life when we had to color our food.

Encountering rare earths in art, environments, and the phone in my pocket.

A brief history of flea medicine.

We live in a relational world. Technoscientific images help us see that way.

Meet Gabriela and Jesse, coeditors of the Institute’s new collections blog.

Staff and scholars will share stories about our library, archival, and museum collections.