Call Number:

003.215

Repository:

Science History Institute Archives

Extent:

80 linear feet (75 boxes)

Preferred Citation:

Bodensee Perkin-Elmer Museum of Instrumental Analysis files Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..

Date:

undated

Form:

Archival materials

Abstract:

These are the surviving files of the scientific instrumentation museum established by the European branch of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation in Bodensee, Germany. The processed portion of this collection is arranged into four series: Museum Administration Files, Research Files, Technical Information Files and Workshops. The unprocessed portions are broadly listed as Miscellaneous. Collection partially processed in 2003.

In 1954, Perkin-Elmer acquired Askania GmbH and set up operations. At the same time they began to gather primary and secondary materials for a museum dedicated to instrumental analysis. This became the Bodensee Perkin-Elmer Museum of Instrumental Analysis, Uberlingen. In 2000 it was decided to close the museum and dismantle its collections, a large portion of which were transferred to the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA.

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1070086~S6

Although these are not the complete records of the museum, they give a more than adequate idea of the museum's scope, collections policy and research interests.

Organized into five series. Series 1. Museum Adminstration Files; Series 2. Research Files Series 3. Technical Information Files; Series 4. Workshops; Series 5. Miscellaneous.