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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]
Dozmary Pool is situated 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.5 kilometres) south of the inn, while a branch of the river Fowey is 1 ⁄ 2 mile (800 metres) west. [9] Spread over 3 ⁄ 4 acre (0.3 hectares) of land, [ 10 ] the Jamaica Inn has been refurbished and functions as an exclusive bed and breakfast establishment, with a pub, a museum and a gift shop.
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 ...
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 ...
American Dime Museum, [17] Baltimore, museum of curiosities [18] [19] Antique Toy Museum, Baltimore, closed in 2012 [20] Bagpipe Museum, Ellicott City [21] Brannock Maritime Museum, Cambridge - collections merged with Richardson Maritime Museum in 2004 [22] Christian Heritage Museum, Hagerstown [23] Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, closed in ...
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]
The prince appointed Tethart Haag as the first director of the art gallery-museum. In 1795 the collection was abducted by the French and housed in the Louvre as war booty. Under a later treaty many paintings were recovered in 1815, but many were not, such as the portrait of William III of Orange, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.
McCausland was a guest on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity in February 2023. [24] His hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was "a vinyl record". Since March 2023, he has hosted a Radio 4 panel game about sound clips, called You Heard It Here First. [25] In April 2024, he featured on BBC Radio 4’s Room 101.