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Online Museums in Psychology

  • Barnard College History of Psychology Collection (curated by Thomas Perera, Ph.D.) Barnard College, a four-year women's college, offered its first courses in psychology in 1906. This collection makes accessible on the internet documents, descriptions and images of experiemental apparatus from the psychology department archives of the last 100 years.
  • Museum of the history of Psychological Instrumentation, Montclair State University (created by by Haupt, Edward J., & Perera, Thomas B.  Curated by Thomas Perera, Ph.D.-- ) An on-line cyber-museum with downloadable illustrations showing collections of early psychological laboratory research apparatus.
  • University of Toronto Museum of Scientific Instruments, psychology collection. A collection of early psychological laboratory research apparatus, as used at one point in the programs of the University of Toronto. David Pantalony, Ph.D.,  and currently the curator of Historic Scientific Instruments at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, was the creator and coördinator of the museum.
  • The Archives of the History of American Psychology The archives were founded and developed by John A. Popplestone and Marion White McPherson. The current director is David B. Baker from the University of Akron, Ohio. The collection is constantly being updated. Note: this is a "brick and mortar" archive/museum as well as an online resource.
  • The Freud Museum in London The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. Anna Freud lived there until her death in 1982. A"brick and mortar" archive/museum as well as an online resource.
  • The Freud Museum in Vienna Berggasse 19, A-1090 Wien This is the location of Freud's home and office in Vienna. It is a "real" museum, but there is also a cyber-museum.
  • The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices On Line