Lightbox Gallery Talk: The Typology

Throughout the Cambridge Science Festival (April 15–24), join us each day in the Lightbox Gallery at 12:30pm to explore the science of light, looking, and conservation.

About today’s program:
Artifacts are often presented with human interpretation, but what can we learn simply by looking? The Typology, a photography project by Diana Zlatanovski, collections steward at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, communicates both the significance and the aesthetic beauty of object collections. A typology is an assemblage based on a shared attribute. Through observing groups of similar things, their variations become evident. Zlatanovski’s project explores multitudes of both private and museum collections; her visual presentation will focus on scientific collections from the storage cabinets at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Can’t make it to the gallery talk? An interactive project related to the theme discussed in the talk will be on view all that day in the Lightbox Gallery.

This event will take place in the Lightbox Gallery, Level 5.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.