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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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A symbol of a lost homeland

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

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The food diary and the power of unhealth

Food diaries might appear to present a strictly factual record of dietary choices, but what they don’t include is the more revealing story, as Virginia Hartley suggests.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz

The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.

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  • A couple with their heads together and a couple in silhouette representing Kamal contraceptive foaming tablets in Ghana. Colour lithograph by Ghana Social Marketing Foundation, ca. 2000.
  • A message to use condoms while having sex to stop AIDS (Hindi version); an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • An illustrated message about how AIDS does not spread from coughing and sneezing to mosquito bites (Hindi version); an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • Suttee. Process print, ca. 1900 (?).
  • A male-female couple hold hands looking at each other representing Secure oral contraception in Ghana. Colour lithograph by Ghana Social Marketing Program, ca. 2000.
  • A five-member family within a shield in front of 2 crossed spears: family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Charcoal drawing of a physician examining a boy, by Kollwitz
  • A pregnant mother in tears living in poverty with her many children: importance of family planning in Ghana. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • An illustrated message about how AIDS does not spread from coughing and sneezing to mosquito bites (Bengali version); an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • An illustrated message about how AIDS spreads; an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
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