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Paris – Museum of Trades and Industrial Arts

The Musée des Arts et Métiers (“Arts and Trades”) is an historical museum of engineering, communications, construction, transportation, materials and scientific instruments. Nowadays we’d call it technology but the word wasn’t in use when the museum was founded in 1794.  The term arts et métiers dates back to the middle ages and meant any kind of economic activity that isn’t agriculture or trade.

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Transparent Woman – the anatomical model that traveled from Dresden to St. Louis and back

 

I finally solved the thirty-year-running mystery of whatever happened to the life-size illuminated transparent woman model in the St. Louis Museum of Science and Natural History after it closed in 1988. When it reopened as a new hands-on discovery center a few years later – with the history, charm and occasional mystery sanitized away, as in most science museums since the 1980s – the Transparent Woman was gone.

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Maira Kalman

Exhibit at the Eric Carle Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts

March 2019