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.
- Article
How to play in a museum
Some museums create games for visitors to play. In others, if you’re creative and inquisitive, you can make up your own. Find out how a game can give you a different perspective on art and objects.
- Article
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.
- In pictures
Revealing the iron corset
There are around 15 iron corsets in museum collections around the world, including two in Wellcome Collection. Historians still dispute their purpose, but these intriguing objects hold clues about who would have worn them and why.
Catalogue
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Museum objects from exhibition-various. 1972-3
- Books
MUSEUM OBJECTS, HEALTH AND HEALING: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXHIBITIONS AND WELLNESS.
COWAN, BRENDADate: 2020- Archives and manuscripts
Registers of objects loaned for display, recording date, person loaning, object description, date of return or transfer to permanent collections
Date: 1912-1961Reference: WA/HMM/CM/Reg/DPart of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library
- Digital Images
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Museum objects from exhibition-various.1972-3
- Digital Images
- Online
Museum objects from exhibition-various.1972-3
