Urology on Display: Museum, Library and Archives of the DGU Duesseldorf-Berlin

Abstract

Within a modern changing academic society, it has become necessary and important for scientific collections and museums as decentralized infrastructures for research, teaching, and education, to define and redefine their missions, their goals, their functions, and their strategies to reflect the expectations of a changing society and the academic world, especially museums of scientific associations as possessing critical resources. For example, the dues of the members are on task for education and promotion of the specials values of these communities under aspects of historical marketing and corporate museums which promote heritage.

Keywords: Collections; Culture of remembrance; Heritage; History of science; History of urology; Museums.