Objects Up Close Virtual Lecture: Lancets & Smallpox at Winterthur Museum

Name: Objects Up Close Virtual Lecture: Lancets & Smallpox at Winterthur Museum
Start: 2024-10-15T10:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-15T12:30:00-04:00
Location: Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

Schedule

Tue Oct 15 2024 at 10:30 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library | Winterthur, DE

Discover how a lancet tucked away in a medicine chest at Winterthur reveals the complex networks of the 18th-century material world, and how lancets became essential objects in combating smallpox, with Becca Lo Presti, assistant curator at the Mattatuck Museum and graduate of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture.