Netwerkmoment Erfgoedcollecties, gezondheid en welzijn, 30/11/2017

1. Heritage and
wellbeing of
longterm
hospitalized patients
KU Leuven, Histaruz & UZ Leuven

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KU Leuven Art & Heritage
Part of the Rector’s Office, Services
Staff of 14 colleagues
- University archives
- Art collection
- Public services (tower & library)
- Cultural programm (exhibitions)
- Supporting collection holders
New ways of heritage valorisation

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6.12.2016 – Round table ‘Gathering the evidence …’ PC
Caritas Melle
=> Nuala Morse, The University of Manchester/University
College London Public and Cultural Engagement
6.3.2017 – Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds
Museums for Health and Wellbeing Conference 2017
National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing
=> Heleen Chatterjee of UCL
& UK Inspiration (before the Brexit)

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Main idea for the pilot project
1)Using museum loan boxes
in the hospital to aprove
the wellbeing of long term
hospitalized patients
2) Researching the possibilities to reproduce
3D printed replicas of heritage objects that could
achieve the same evidence based results

5. Partnership for the start-up
Heritage collections
of the Louvain
university
Diensten Rectoraat - Kunst & Erfgoed5
Volunteers of
Histaruz
Clinical medicins
of the academic
hospital

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> 30 collections of academic disciplines
 Finding the right objects
 Gatering knowledge about the
characteristics that make
them useable in this specific
context of health care and
patients wellbeing
 Proving the social relevance of
heritage collections and of taking
care of them

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Histaruz = +30 volunteers
- many of them retired nurses
and medicins
- Familiar with the hospital
environment and procedures
- Hands-on training on the
stimulation of patients wellbeing
by heritage manipulation
 a new challenge
=> Proving the added value of retired employees for their former organisation

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UZ Leuven
biggest academic hospital
of the country:
- 4 campuses
- almost 2000 beds
- staff of 9000 people
 1 or 2 departments participating
in the pilot project (oncology ?)
 involvement of the nursery school
 in- & outside dissimination of a good practice
=> networking with other hospitals to improve and develop the methods

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Phase 2 ??
partnership with
=> online 3D printing service to
select and order a personalised set
of heritage replicas for every
patients loan box
=> printing schemes from all over
the world available in the cloud for
all the users of heritage loan boxes