Stories
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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How to play in a museum
Some museums create games for visitors to play. In others, if you’re creative and inquisitive, you can make up your own. Find out how a game can give you a different perspective on art and objects.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
Catalogue
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A descriptive catalogue of the Reading Museum. Part 1, Ethnological collection / by Joseph Stevens.
Museum (Reading)Date: 1896- Books
Führer durch das Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig / herausgegeben von der Direktion.
Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig.Date: 1922- Books
Re-visions : new perspectives on the African collections of the Horniman Museum / edited by Karel Arnaut.
Date: 2000- Books
Performing objects : museums, material culture and performance in Southeast Asia / edited by Fiona Kerlogue.
Date: [2004]- Books
Handbook to the ethnographical collections.
British Museum. Department of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography.Date: 1925
