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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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  • Oxford Diocesan Training School, Oxford. Wood engraving by Laing after J. Clarke.
  • Cardinal Wolsey's College, Ipswich, Suffolk. Line engraving by G. Noble.
  • Six men construct a section of the Tower of Babel. Etching by Cowley after S. Wale.
  • The building of a ziggurat, perhaps the Tower of Babel; bricks are burned and chiselled. Etching.
  • The builders of the Tower of Babel start to argue as their language is confounded. Etching by M. van der Gucht after G. Hoet, c. 1700.
  • God appears at Babel to disperse the people into different tongues. Process print, 1894, after W. von Kaulbach.
  • Divinity School, Oxford: great hall. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1837, after F. Mackenzie.
  • The pool of Bethesda. Aquatint after L. Mayer.
  • National school, Clerkenwell, London. Wood engraving by J.R. Jobbins.
  • Collegium Romanum, Rome: with the extended piazza a key to the surrounding buildings. Line engraving.
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