
Dr Nathan Bossoh
Treasurer

Nathan Bossoh is the first African collections Research Curator at the Science Museum
London where he is working on a project to help the Science Museum better understand the
provenance, significance, and future development of the (over 5000) African medical
materials gathered during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by the pharmaceutical
entrepreneur Sir Henry Wellcome. Nathan recently completed his PhD at UCL where he
focused on the cultural history of modern science and technology within Britain and its
empire through an investigation of the 8th Duke of Argyll, a well-known Victorian Christian
polymath. He has published on Victorian science, technology, and religion, and is now
writing an article which highlights the importance of material cultural studies through
museum collections as a way to uncover marginalised histories of African agency, culture,
and scientific knowledge and practice.