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KARRER - Interviews with contemporary witnesses to document collections of historical objects. Guidelines for the staff of collection institutions and museums

Fig. 1: Mondial vacuum cleaner transformed into a respirator for compressed air. Documented by an interview with the donator and constructor (Inv. 10226) - Courtesy of the Institute of the History of Medicine, University of Berne and Inselspital-Stiftung Museum Collection.	Fig. 2: Former head of the intensive care department explaining an iron lung, used in the 1950ies for the treatment of Poliomyelitis (Inv. 10213) - Courtesy of the Institute of the History of Medicine, University of Berne and Inselspital-Stiftung Museum Collection.	Fig. 3: Interview setting with an urologist and a medical technologist to document the first lithotripter of Berne (Inv. 12779) - Courtesy of the Institute of the History of Medicine, University of Berne and Inselspital-Stiftung Museum Collection.
Fig. 4: Different products of the interview with the donator of a mobile „home made“ respirator for a Polio patient (Inv. 12117) - Courtesy of the Institute of the History of Medicine, University of Berne and Inselspital-Stiftung Museum Collection.