#  Donate 

 



## **Why give to the**  
**Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments?**

   ![Hannah Marcus](/sites/g/files/omnuum6316/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/chsi/files/hannah_marcus.jpg?itok=ksCAHPr1) 

 

The CHSI has been fortunate to count on great Friends over the last decades. Their generosity helped us build this new space we now enjoy, hire full-time museum professionals to care for the collection, and has resulted in advances for research and education—including our online database available to anyone, anywhere, called [Waywiser](http://waywiser.rc.fas.harvard.edu/).

Much more needs to be done. In addition to our day-to-day curatorial management, we have begun an ambitious exhibition and pedagogical program. We believe the CHSI’s collection of scientific instruments offers great learning opportunities to a variety of people, including Faculty, undergrad and grad students, postdocs, visiting scholars, and the wider public. The goal is to create a pedagogical and experimental environment that will encourage the production of object-based knowledge. We envision the end results to include and go beyond exhibitions: art performances, demonstrations, and lecture events to name but a few. Your donation will help us continue to care for the collection, to involve an increasing number of creative minds, and to develop a more open, innovative, and critical understanding of the material culture of science.

With kind regards,

[Hannah Marcus](https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/hannah-marcus)  
Faculty Director of the CHSI  
Professor of the History of Science



 

##  TO MAKE A GIFT BY: 

 



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###    Major Credit Card  expand\_more  

 

 Please use the  
**[Harvard University Online Giving Form](https://community.alumni.harvard.edu/give/16040771)**.  
  
When selecting a school/affiliate to  
donate to, please choose  
“**Other**” from the drop-down  
menu, and enter a note  
in the “**Comments/Other  
Designation**” box  
with instructions that  
this gift should  
go to the “**Collection  
of Historical Scientific Instruments**.”



 

 

 



###    Personal Check  expand\_more  

 

 Please make checks  
payable to:  
  
“**The President and Fellows of Harvard College,**” and  
include a note in the memo  
line of the check that this is  
for the “**CHSI Fund #017526  
/ History of Science**.”  
  
Gifts by check may be mailed to:  
  
**Joshua GormanExecutive** **Director**, **CHSI**  
**Department of the  
History of Science,**  
**Science Center 251c**,  
**1 Oxford Street,**  
**Cambridge, MA 02138**