Introduction to the Survey

The ESP History of Pathology Working Group is conducting a survey and would be grateful if you could take a few minutes to answer the following questions on your pathology museum/collection.

The results will be used to improve our knowledge of history, location, institutional status, audiences and policies of Pathology Museums across Europe.

Preservation of anatomical specimens and facilities is neither easy nor uncostly, and calls for patronage. In order for it to develop, a European Pathology Museum Network should aim to promote the study, access and divulgation of antique collections.

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* 1. Name of museum:

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* 2. If the collections are not your responsibility, please advise us who to contact, or forward the email invitation or questionnaire to the appropriate person.

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* 3. Contact person:

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* 4. Address of museum / collection:

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* 5. Are you willing to be contacted to provide further information about this survey?

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* 6. Type of museum (determined by its most important funding source):

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* 7. How many collection staff (curators, conservators, collection managers, store people etc.) are employed?

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* 8. Will this information be about the whole museum/collection?

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* 9. How many objects are there in the collections? Exclude inaccessible collections such as archives or bulk finds.

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* 10. Genre of objects:

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* 11. Are the collection specimens documented by original clinical records?

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* 12. What are the most important topics/issues your museum/ collection addresses?

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* 13. Is there a member of staff or an independent scholar conducting research on the collections?

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* 14. Can the public access the stored collections?

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* 15. If so, please tick all that apply:

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* 16. Do you record the number of visitors accessing your collections each year?

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* 17. How do people access details of the contents of the collection? Please tick the three most widely used routes. If there are more than three, please add to ‘other’.

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* 18. Are the collections listed online?

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* 19. Do you have plans to implement collection information online?

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* 20. Are there any plans to increase use of collections?

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* 21. Please tick relevant options below:

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* 22. Which of the following are the main obstacles that hinder use of the stored collections? 
Please tick the three most important. If there are more than three, please add to ‘other’: 

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* 23. Would you like to comment on any part of the questionnaire?

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* 24. Is there anything else you think we should take into account?

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