{"id":15,"date":"2008-07-28T00:05:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T23:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=15"},"modified":"2008-12-14T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T17:58:15","slug":"new-york-london-oslo-art-collections-at-the-click-of-a-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2008\/07\/28\/new-york-london-oslo-art-collections-at-the-click-of-a-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"New York, London, Oslo: art collections at the click of a mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most powerful teaching tools available to educators is- for me- art. And one of the wonderful things about being a medical educator is the fact that so many of the world’s great art galleries and museums have- or are in the process of -making their collections freely available on-line. In this posting I’ll tell you about three of my favorite on-line collections in the hope that you’ll share yours with me.<\/p>\n

First up is New York’s Museum of Modern Art.<\/p>\n

www.moma.org<\/a><\/p>\n

The museum’s stated aim is to ‘seek to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary art, while being accessible to a public that ranges from scholars to young children.’ Importantly, from the perspective of medical educators around the world, the on-line catalogue is accessible in a very practical sense, with a search engine that allows users to identify relevant works of art at the click of a mouse.<\/p>\n

To see what I mean, use the advanced search option to search under the following group of terms -doctor ill sick patient nurse- and you’ll be rewarded with links to and a detailed descriptions of 156 potential teaching aids. The first of these- Doctor Giving Massage to Patient with AIDS from The New Provinetown Print Project 1993, by Sue Cole- is enough all by itself to reward the effort.<\/p>\n

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Another amazing resource available via the MoMA website is the fully searchable DADABASE: the Online Catalog of The Museum of Modern Art Library, Archives and Study Centers.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/library.moma.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Closer to home, for me, is the National Gallery Collection. Again, a wonderful searchable on-line catalogue although, without an advanced search, identifying suitable resources is a little more difficult. Nevertheless, searching under ‘death’ came up with 111 suggestions including Hogath’s satirical ‘Marriage A-la-Mode: 6. The Lady’s Death’.<\/p>\n

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Last but not least amongst my favorite on-line collections is that of the Munch Museum in Oslo.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.munch.museum.no\/?lang=en<\/a><\/p>\n

Not only does this site feature paintings from the collection but also a series of on-line exhibitions. I have many favorites in this collection but ‘Death in the sickroom’ -a powerful depiction of loss and its long term impact on all those affected-is my choice for today.<\/p>\n

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The on-line collections I’ve recommended necessarily reflect the parts of the world I live in and travel to. So please, share with readers of this blog your favorite on-line collections, so that we can all enjoy them and so that they can enrich all of our teaching and our scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most powerful teaching tools available to educators is- for me- art. And one of the wonderful things about being a medical educator is the fact that so many of the world’s great art galleries and museums have- or are in the process of -making their collections freely available on-line. In this posting […]<\/p>\n

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