The HaMMer No.30 August 2006

In this issue

• The Health and Medicine Museums group has gone into recess after a period of intense and often heart-wrenching deliberations. Its replacement is Collections of Health and the History of Medicine or CHAHM. Rita Hardiman explains how this will work. CHAHM (pronounced 'charm') is an informal networking group open to anyone with an interest in health and medicine collections or the history of medicine, particularly in Australia and New Zealand. Its purpose is to maintain and expand the HMM network, even though HMM itself has gone into recess.

• Events leading to HMM's being in recess are explained in detail in the Supplement at the back of this newsletter.

• HMM members Judith Cornell and Peter Stanbury found the May '06 Brisbane Museums Australia Conference taxed minds and bodies. They report it as mentally stimulating - but physically challenging as well.

• Will HMM outings like this become a thing of the past?

  Pictured left are the Victorian Chapter of HMM on a weekend visit to the recreated goldfields township of Sovereign Hill. Their special tour included meeting the Phrenologist and visiting the Apothecary's Shop, the Undertaker and the Night Cart team.

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