The Davis Museum announces The Art of Science: Object Lessons at Wellesley College, 1870-1920, an exhibition on view February 26 – June 22, 2014.
Planned to accompany the Wellesley/Deerfield symposium, “The Art of Science in New England, 1700-1920”, this small exhibition mines the recently rediscovered collection of objects and images used in science classrooms at Wellesley College from the time of the school’s founding to the 1920s. Wellesley was at the forefront of science education for women and utilized a variety of drawings, models, and scientific instruments to provide the highest quality education possible. For example, Wellesley’s founder, Henry Fowle Durant, purchased a set of papier-mâché botanical models by the renowned French anatomist, Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux, at the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris (currently housed in the Science Center). www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum