摘要：nderwater is surprising. Lois Hendrickson and Emily Beck, the exhibit’s curators, planned the exhibit after a visitor asked if the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine’s expansive collection included any materials related to algae. The question led them to explore the collection’s holdings related to ocean, a theme which became “water” to reflect, in part, the University of Minnesota’s designation of clean water Uaccess as a Grand Challenge. Underwater, as Hendrickson and Beck explained to me, is less a crystallized exposition of their collection’s curiosities and more a conversation-in-motion on the historical relationships between water, healthy bodies, and natural environments.
