The Landis Museum · The Medicine Chest

Title

The Landis Museum

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Description

A drawing by the artist-curator James Hutchinson (Chapter Thirteen) based on an audio description of the object as art of the Glasgow International Arts festival.

"Nina Liebenberg also undertakes a form of object analysis at an institutional border. She spent an afternoon in the strongroom of the University of Cape Town's special collections department, examining an early 20th century medicine box commissioned for a hunting trip in (then) Northern Rhodesia. Such boxes had been essential parts of the British colonial project, and allowed emigres, missionaries and explorers to venture deeper into unknown territory without fear of contracting tropical diseases. Liebenberg’s report from the strongroom acts as a set of instructions for The Landis Museum’s curator to make a drawing of the box, to which he has no physical access".

Extract from the 'Exhibition Guide' of the Landis Museum (Chapter Thirteen), Glasgow International Arts Festival, 20 April - 07 May 2018.

Curriculum

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air See all items with this value

Philosophia Botanica See all items with this value

On the External Characters of Minerals See all items with this value

The Memory of Water See all items with this value

url

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6076ff6e4d0e3e7f2432a75b/t/609d28fed1d6f225935be056/1620912385947/The+Landis+Museum+-+Handout.pdf

Creator

Nina Liebenberg See all items with this value

James Hutchinson See all items with this value

Date Created

20180520

endDate

20180507

Source

Chapter Thirteen. 2018. Exhibition guide. [online]. Available: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6076ff6e4d0e3e7f2432a75b/t/609d28fed1d6f225935be056/1620912385947/The+Landis+Museum+-+Handout.pdf. (25/11/2021).