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Medical devices, Gama Pinto Institute

2019 Preventive Conservation
Science and Technique

Intervention on an ensemble of diverse objects from the collection of the Museum of History and Technique of Ophthalmology in Portugal, installed in the Institute of Ophthalmology Dr. Gama Pinto (IOGP), including carrying out the following tasks:

> Inventory of the mobile and integrated cultural collection
> Implementation of reservation areas
> Packaging and storage of the movable collection
> Conservation and restoration.

The intervened collection includes the following objects:

  • Knapp's Ophthalmotrope, 1861
  • Placido's disc, 19-20th cs.
  • Liebrreich's ophthalmoscope, 1870
  • Case with surgical instruments, 19-20th cs.
  • Ophthalmodianometer Dr. Audolt and stamp, 19-20th cs.
  • Electric ophthalmoscope, 20th c.
  • Optometry test frame, 20th c.
  • Holmes stereoscope, 19-20th cs.
  • Lens with frame case, 20th c.
  • Lorgnon or lunette, 19-20th cs.
  • Carl Zeiss monocular microscope, 19-20th cs.
  • Ocular model, 20th c.
  • Erysiphake, 19-20th cs.

Acknowledgements Institute of Ophthalmology Dr. Gama Pinto

Ocular model, before the intervention.
Ocular model, after the intervention.
Knapp's Ophthalmotrope, before the intervention.
Knapp's Ophthalmotrope, after the intervention.
Holmes stereoscope, before the intervention.
Holmes stereoscope, after the intervention.
Optometry test frame, before the intervention.
Optometry test frame, after the intervention.
Erysiphake, before the intervention.
Erysiphake, after the intervention.
Liebrreich's ophthalmoscope, before the intervention.
Liebrreich's ophthalmoscope, after the intervention.
Electric ophthalmoscope, before the intervention.
Electric ophthalmoscope, after the intervention.
Case with surgical instruments, before the intervention.
Case with surgical instruments, after the intervention.
Placido's disc, before the intervention.
Placido's disc, after the intervention.