%0 Journal Article
%T The ¡®Ferreira da Silva¡¯ Chemistry Laboratory ¨C a valuable asset in a university collection
%A Luis Bernardo
%A Marisa Monteiro
%J University Museums and Collections Journal
%D 2012
%I International Committee for University Museums and Collections
%X The relevant scientific and teaching activity in chemistry the Polytechnic Academy of Porto was involved in, at the turn of the 19th century, led to the decision of assigning a significant area of a building under construction for a new analytic chemistry laboratory. Several reasons are given why the Museum of Science has been proposing that this laboratory, a superb example of the University of Porto¡¯s heritage, named after the prestigious chemist and Professor Ferreira da Silva, should be considered an item in itself in the museum¡¯s overall collection, for its various valences, restored to its most valuable architecture and so preserved, to be appreciated also as a privileged exhibit scenario for the scientific instrument collection.
%K chemistry
%K laboratory
%K preservation
%U http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/umacj/2012/monteiro-31/PDF/monteiro.pdf