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A visiting specialist from the Smithsonian once called Transylvania University’s Moosnick Museum one of the finest collections of its kind in the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But with no single location or regular hours, seeing these 19th century science artifacts takes some doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this past summer a team from Transylvania helped launch a 3D imaging project to make these items, along with others from the library’s Special Collections<\/a>, more accessible \u2014 from a historic hairball to dissectible mannequins<\/a>. (Follow the museum on Twitter @ImmenseHairball<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transylvania established the first medical school in the “West,” rivaling Harvard for a while. It was also home to the first medical fraternity of its kind, which led to the founding of the American Medical Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help share artifacts from that era, the team attended the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship this past summer<\/a> at Grinnell College in Iowa. (It’s part of Transylvania’s larger focus on the digital liberal arts<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They learned about digital scholarship in general and made 3D images with a few practice objects with the guidance of experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making this 3D volt meter image was good practice for scanning items from the Moosnick Museum<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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