Brass Instrument Psychology Museum

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Description:	The instruments displayed in this exhibition represent the earliest research and teaching program in experimental psychology in Canada. They are witnesses to an extraordinary period in the history of philosophy and psychology, when scientists started measuring, describing and investigating the contents of our sensations and thoughts. In particular, these instruments derive from the pioneering psychological studies at the University of Toronto carried out between 1891 and 1926. In 1891 James Mark Baldwin (1861-1934) founded the psychology laboratory at the University of Toronto, the first of its kind in the British Commonwealth. This laboratory included the latest instruments and books from Europe. In 1897, August Kirschmann (1860-1932), who had come from Wilhelm Wundt’s laboratory in Germany, expanded the laboratory (including new rooms and instruments) and established a thriving research program with a publication series for faculty and students. Edward Alexander Bott (1887-1974), a gifted experimentalist who had trained at Toronto, took over the laboratory in 1912. He continued the traditions begun by Baldwin and Kirschmann and established psychology as an independent department at the university in 1926.
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Contact:	Tel: 416-978-7617 Fax: 416-978-4811 University of Toronto 100 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 3G3
Website:	www.psych.utoronto.ca/museum
Business Type:	Museum
Categories:	Fun Places to Go
Activity Types:	Arts & Heritage

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	Name	Street	City	PostalCode
	University of Toronto	100 St. George Street	Toronto	M5S 3G3

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