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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A nose through Blythe House
Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.
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A head apart from the body
We look to the future of science via science fiction to explore how a head may live apart from its body.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
Catalogue
- Books
Temples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums / by Sami K. Hamarneh.
Hamarneh, Sami Khalaf, 1925-2010.Date: 1972- Books
[Box of papers on Wellcome Research Institutions and Museums : 1950-1986].
Date: 1950-1986- Archives and manuscripts
History of Trypanosomiasis
Date: [1950s] - 1961Reference: WA/MMS/AD/Mus/8/33Part of: Wellcome Museum of Medical Science- Archives and manuscripts
Commemorative Publications
Date: 1928 - 1956Reference: WA/MMS/AD/Mus/18Part of: Wellcome Museum of Medical Science- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence
Date: 1957 - 1972Reference: WA/MMS/AD/CorPart of: Wellcome Museum of Medical Science