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Potter's collection, billed as "Mr Potter's Museum of Curiosities" was to build into a "world-famous example of Victorian whimsy", with special coach trips from Brighton being arranged; [5] and the village and Potter's museum were so popular that an extension was built to the platform at Bramber railway station. [4]
American Dime Museum - museum of curiosities, closed in 2006 [8] [9] Antique Toy Museum, Baltimore - closed in 2012 [10] [11] B. Olive Cole Pharmacy Museum - was located in the Kelly building at the Maryland Pharmacists Association [12] Baltimore City Life Museums - consortium of historic homes, building and sites (folded 1997)
The Houston Museum of Natural Science houses a hands-on Cabinet of Curiosities, complete with taxidermied crocodile embedded in the ceiling a la Ferrante Imperato's Dell'Historia Naturale. In Los Angeles , the modern-day Museum of Jurassic Technology anachronistically seeks to recreate the sense of wonder that the old cabinets of curiosity once ...
Kazan Cathedral, now not a museum as such, but formerly housing Museum of Religion and Atheism (presently occupying a different building, the State Museum of the History of Religion [51]); designed by Andrey Voronikhin, the cathedral resembles Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica and is a monument to Russia's victory in Napoleonic Wars of 1812-14
The interior of the Viktor Wynd Museum. The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History is a museum and bar in Hackney Central, situated in a former call centre on Mare Street in the London Borough of Hackney. [1] [2] It is operated by Viktor Wynd [3] and part of The Last Tuesday Society and was funded on Kickstarter in 2015. [4]
Bullock began as a goldsmith and jeweller in Birmingham. By 1795, Bullock was in Liverpool, where he founded a Museum of Natural Curiosities at 24 Lord Street.While still trading as a jeweller and goldsmith, in 1801, he published a descriptive catalogue of the works of art, armoury, objects of natural history, and other curiosities in the collection, some of which had been brought back by ...
The Potter's Wax Museum is located at 31 Orange Street (formerly 1 King Street from 1948 to 1986, 17 King Street from 1987 to 2013), St. Augustine, Florida, United States. It houses over 160 wax sculptures (243 before 1986) covering a wide range of real and fictitious figures, including famous politicians, entertainers, horror characters ...
The Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia was established in 1972. [1] [2] [3] The Potter, as it is known locally, [1] presents a curated exhibition program of historical and contemporary art. Through its activities the Potter provides for the acquisition, maintenance, conservation, cataloguing ...