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Walter Potter (2 July 1835 – 21 May 1918) [1] [2] was an English taxidermist noted for his anthropomorphic dioramas featuring mounted animals mimicking human life, which he displayed at his museum in Bramber, Sussex, England.
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 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]
Wynd established The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History in London's East End, a cabinet of curiosities featuring two-headed lambs, Fiji mermaids, unicorns, taxidermy, dodo bones, erotica, old master etchings, surrealist, occult and outsider art, [1] and celebrity faeces. [2] The museum was featured in a BBC Four ...
The earliest pictorial record of a natural history cabinet is the engraving in Ferrante Imperato's Dell'Historia Naturale (Naples 1599) (illustration).It serves to authenticate its author's credibility as a source of natural history information, by showing his open bookcases (at the right), in which many volumes are stored lying down and stacked, in the medieval fashion, or with their spines ...
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 ...
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Tradescant's Ark. The Musaeum Tradescantianum was the first museum open to the public to be established in England.Located in South Lambeth, London, it comprised a collection of curiosities assembled by John Tradescant the elder and his son in a building called The Ark, [1] and a botanical collection in the grounds of the building.