Tfk: A History of Women’s Roles in Science at the Otago Muse

Collecting ferns to arrange in albums or painting flowers were leisurely pastimes for young ladies in the nineteenth-century, but that’s not all that happened.

This month, Dr Rosi Crane from Otago Museum will share some of the historical discoveries she has made while uncovering women's participation in the Museum, including Josephine Gordon Rich, one of the few women to publish original scientific research.

In 2019, Dr Rosi Crane was awarded funding to research and write a history of Otago Museum by the New Zealand History Research Trust. Dr Crane is a member of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture and an honorary curator at Otago Museum.