Weekly Roundup of Curiosities #2
The Constructing Scientific Communities (@Conscicom) project and the Hunterian Museum have co-curated an exhibition on the history of vaccination, which…
The Constructing Scientific Communities (@Conscicom) project and the Hunterian Museum have co-curated an exhibition on the history of vaccination, which…
Georgiana Houghton was a spiritualist medium who was trained in classical art but gave up painting after the death…
Browsing through the bookshelves of your modern university library – have you ever had a look at one of the conspicuously…
After first meeting Jane, Rochester furthers their relationship by masquerading as a gypsy to discover her true impressions of him. His voice ‘wraps’ her…
#1 Curator Andrea Hart provides an audio slideshow of Rare Treasures. Which brings together some of the Museum’s most highly…
Marianne North was an early female explorer, naturalist and painter. Her life, as she described it, was one of “wander…
~ Cabinets of curiosities, also known as ‘wonder rooms’, were small collections of extraordinary objects which attempted to categorise and tell…