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A virtual view of history

Step inside Anne Frank’s house or explore the galleries in a museum destroyed by fire. VR brings history and art satisfyingly close when we’re unable to get there in person.

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Trans masculinity on the record

Curator of the Museum of Transology in Brighton E-J Scott tells the story behind a few of the 250 objects from the collection, and the powerful effect they had on him as he put trans lives on the record.

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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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Why the world needs collectors

Those who collect play an important role as “facilitators of curiosity”, says Anna Faherty.

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  • The British Museum: the interior of the reading room, in use. Wood engraving by G. F. Sargent.
  • The British Museum: the reading room, with many readers. Engraving by H. Melville after T. H. Shepherd.
  • The British Museum: the reading room under construction. Wood engraving by J. Brown after C. W. Sheeres, 1855.
  • The British Museum: the Additional Library, in the north wing of the museum, looking from west to east towards the reading rooms. Engraving by Radclyffe after L. Jewitt.
  • The British Museum: the interior of the reading room, in use. Wood engraving by [I.C.] after C. Gregory, 1874.
  • Model of hydraulic machinery with a water-wheel, Deutsches Museum, Munich. Photograph, ca. 1936.
  • Stone wellhead, possibly Italian, with a bucket, winch and metal framework attached, dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century (?), shown on display in the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Photograph, ca. 1936.
  • Roman aqueducts in Via Latina, to the southeast of Rome: view of the crossing of two aqueducts during ancient Roman times, with the city of Rome seen in the distance. Photograph, ca. 1936, of a painting by M. Zeno Diemer, ca. 1910/1935.
  • Demonstration model of equipment used for boring into the earth to extract water (?): the groundwater level is indicated with small labels. Photograph, ca. 1936.
  • Model of the pump room at the Kissingen Baths, Germany: men and women are shown drinking the waters, while beneath them the mechanics of the water supply is shown in cross-section. Photograph, 1936.
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