Stories
- Article
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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Dying to be in nature
The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.
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A brief history of tattoos
The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
Catalogue
- Journals
Report on the British Museum (Natural History).
British Museum (Natural History)Date: 1966-- Books
List of serial publications in the British Museum (Natural History) Library.
British Museum (Natural History). Library.Date: 1968- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'British Museum (Natural History)'
Date: 1981-1982Reference: WA/HMM/TR/Abc/C.3/8Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
British Museum (Natural History) [London]
Date: 9 Mar 1982Reference: WA/HMM/TR/Abc/C.2/20Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
Catalogue of primates in the British Museum (Natural History). Pt. 1, Families Callitrichidae and Cebidae / Prudence Hero Napier.
Napier, P. H. (Prue H.)Date: 1976