[PDF.60ro] Curiosities from the Cabinet: Objects and Voices from Britain's Museums

Curiosities from the Cabinet: Objects and Voices from Britain's Museums

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 | #4537441 in Books |  2017-01-17 | Original language:English |  9.00 x.49 x6.00l, | File type: PDF | 214 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A five star book for the intellectually curious|By Count Zero|This book is a delight. The concept is highly original and very well executed. This book really is a cabinet of curiosities in words. Not only does it bring alive some of the wonderful objects kept in museums, it brilliantly illuminates what goes on "behind the scenes" to bring these objects to the public eye. This i| |'Curiosities from the Cabinet offers a glimpse of the past of museums, then a fresh exploration of their collections. Far from being a defunct form, left behind by time, the idea of the cabinet of curiosity continues to entice and surprise. This book does too.

Curiosities from the Cabinet presents objects found in UK museums from Weston-super-Mare to the Shetlands, plus interviews with people who know and love them – curators, conservators, artists, visitors, users. We hear about a euthanasia machine used by four people (introduced by the doctor who developed it); a colony of ants; the world’s oldest usable map; some 1920s toilet paper and many other exhibits. This book will inform and intrigue anyone who likes vi...

You easily download any file type for your device.Curiosities from the Cabinet: Objects and Voices from Britain's Museums   |  Rebecca Reynolds. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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