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    The document discusses the origins and history of museums. It begins by defining the word "museum" as coming from the Greek word for the muses, who were goddesses that inspired literature, science, and the arts. It then provides background historical context from the 15th-16th centuries involving Spanish conquests and British colonization. It describes how early collections known as "cabinets of curiosities" evolved into some of the first public museums, using the examples of the Ashmolean Museum, the oldest university museum established in 1683, and the British Museum, the first independent public museum established in 1759.

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    MUSEUM

    Greek: Mousa =mouseion=museum


    A place for the muses (goddesses for
    inspiration of literature science and the arts
    2 session
    nd

    • The Ashmolean museum, its origins and


    transformation.
    • What is a museum?
    • The Ashmolean museum is the First University’s
    museum. 1683
    • The British museum is the First independent
    museum in the world. 1759

    HISTORICAL CONTEXT VI, VII, VIII, ix


    SPANISH CONQUEST OF MEXICO
    BRITISH COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA
    imperialistic EXPANSION AND GLOBAL DOMINATION
    • Cabinets of curiosities=places of wonder
    • It was described as a room rather than a piece
    of furniture.
    • Limited to members of the social and
    intellectual elite
    • The ‘Ark’ was visited if people paid six pence.
    John Tradescant (father and son)
    • They lived at the outskirts of London
    • They travelled to Russia, North America and
    North Africa
    King Charles I; Henrietta Maria by Robert van Voerst, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
    line engraving, 1634 15 7/8 in. x 21 3/4 in. (403 mm x 553 mm) paper size
    acquired Unknown source, 1953 National Portrait Gallery, London.
    1670s Hendrick Danckerts (Dutch artist, 1625-1689) Royal Gardener John Rose
    presenting a pineapple to King Charles II
    Allegory of Charles I of England and Henrietta of France in a Vanitas Still Life
    (after 1669). Carstian Luyckx (French, 1623-well after 1658). Oil on Canvas.
    Birmingham museum of arts.
    Royal Gardeners
    Father and son
    John Tradescant

    Possibly by Thomas de Critz (1607-53)

    Attributed to Cornelis de Neve (c.1609-78)


    Tradescantia Virginia
    Powhatan’s Mantle

    Deerskin embroidered with shells


    The museum
    originally included
    stuffed animals,
    exotic birds, shells,
    fossils, ‘a piece of
    wood from the cross
    of Christ, boots and
    shoes from Turkey.
    The man made
    objects represented
    the artificial world.

    John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells.
    1645, oil on canvas
    The Tradescants’ Ark House in Lambeth, London.
    Ex Uno Omnia (‘everything out of one’),

    Elias Ashmole,
    a well connected antiquary, government
    official, collector and student of alchemy.

    Painting by John Riley


    Frame carved in limewood by
    Grinling Gibbons.
    Limewood
    Virginia spider flower
    The museum on Broad Street
    Museum of History of Science
    Landscape with Birds, showing a dodo in the lower right, by Roelant Savery, 1628
    Dodo bird from Mauritius Islands
    A Dodo bronze sculpture by Nick Bibby
    Modern Ashmoleam museum
    Jon Whiteley, winner of an
    Oscar for the film 1953
    film The Little Kidnappers
    and
    Curator of the Wester art
    department.

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