This short film was realized within the Seminar "Visual ethnographies of science: Investigating knowledge production through media practice". At the beginning of the project we asked ourselves why certain objects within museum collections are displayed in exhibitions while, on the other hand, other objects fail to become a part of it. Due to this fact, public knowledge production is heavily influenced by the evaluation process behind every object. We therefore chose to investigate this evaluation process - an approach, which is also well reflected in the title of our film. With our cameras we followed Sophie Gerber, custodian at the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology, and tried to show how the evaluation processes regarding an object is shaped. ACQUIRING COLLECTION OBJECTS (2022) was made by Tatjana Andrea Borodin, Sofiya Korneva, Hubert Tastl, in collaboration with Sophie Gerber during the Ma course "Visual Ethnographies of Science", taught at the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology (KSA) of the University of Vienna. The course was taught by Sarah Davies and Sanderien Verstappen, with tutoring of Viktoria Paar.

eda – Ethnographic Data Archive/Vienna University Library

eda – Ethnographisches Datenarchiv/UB Wien