Museums Collection (page 6)

Geological Museum Inside
The Great Hall of the Economic Geology Museum, Jermyn Street, Piccadilly, London, (previously the Practical Geology Museum) Date: 1851

Rotorua Museum, North Island, New Zealand
View of the Rotorua Museum of Art and History, Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand. The museum is housed in the historic Bath House building, located in the Government Gardens

The Loan Collection at the South Kensington Museum
The Loan Collection on display in the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in 1862, an exhibition comprising over 8000 different objects from around 450 contributors

The East India House Museum, London, 1858
Interior of the East India House Museum in Leadenhall Street, London. Many of the items on display in the museum at that time were from the collection of Dr. Forbes Royle

The Prado, Madrid
The Prado, built in the 1780s, opened as a museum in 1819 and houses a definitive collection of Spanish art as well as much from the Netherlands, formerly governed by Spain

Royal Coll. of Surgeons
The osteological room in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London

Brit Museum Elgin Room
The Elgin Room, housing the marbles and other treasures looted from Greece by Lord Elgin in 1812 and bought by the nation in 1816 for 35, 000 pounds

Museum Natural History
Whales and elephants dominate the crowded hall of the Musee d histoire naturelle, Paris

Mariettes Museum
A selection of mummified remains in Mariettes Museum, Bulaq (museum founded 1863)

Reading Room Brit Museum
Construction of the great Reading Room of the British Museum, the forerunner of the British Library

Hermitage Museum
The Hermitage at St Petersburg, Russia, was built in the 1760s to house Catherine IIs art collection. It will burn down in 1837 but will be rebuilt by Nicolas I

Old London Museum
Poster advertising the old London Museum in Dover Street, Mayfair

Geological Museum
After starting life in 1835 in Whitehall, the Museum of Practical Geology moves to these premises in Jermyn Street in 1851, and finally to South Kensington in 1935

Lecture / British Museum
A lecture in the Assyrian Gallery of the British Museum. The speaker points towards one of the massive carved Lion supports removed by Layard from excavations at Nineveh

Visiting British Museum
A countryman, a soldier, a sailor, a Scot, with their wives and offspring, throng the Museum which at this time includes the Natural History Museum

Hunterian Museum
HUNTERIAN MUSEUM (Royal College of Surgeons) Visitors observing various skeletons and natural history specimens on display

British Museum Zoologica
The Zoological Gallery: the natural history exhibits will not be given separate housing until 1881, when the Natural History Museum will open to the public

Smithsonian, Exterior
Part of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Roumiantsev Mus, Moscow
The Roumiantsev museum, Moscow, a characteristically grandiose monstrosity

Mus Beauxarts Villeparis
The Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris is inaugurated by the President, Loubet

Musee De Cluny, Baths
The Roman baths

Architectural Museum
The Architectural Museum of the Architectural Association will not open until 1869, so this is evidently some kind of predecessor. It is located in Canon Row, Westminster

India Museum, London
The newly-opened India Museum, in Whitehall Yard, is rich with nice things acquired and brought back from India by our soldiers and administrators

Lon Miss Soc Museum 2
Some acquisitive missionary brought back this stuffed giraffe from his travels - just one of the weird items in the Museums collection

Lon Miss Soc Museum
This museum is full of weird and wonderful objects acquired by missionaries in various far-flung corners of the world. Whatever happened to them, I wonder ?

Royal Naval Museum 1842
The exhibition of ship models at the Royal Naval Museum, housed at Somerset House, London

Brit Mus Egyptian Room
Thanks to military and political activities in Egypt, the Egyptian Gallery is well stocked with statues and other artefacts acquired in the cause of culture

Brit Mus Arched Room
The Arched Room is part of the Museums collection of books, not yet hidden in the stacks, less still transferred to the British Library

Brit Mus Etruscan Room
They learnt Macaulays Horatius at school, so they know all about the Etruscans and can enjoy the Etruscan Room even if its mostly jars and pots

Brit Mus Coral Room
The new Coral Room : in 1881 visitors will have to traipse all the way to South Kensington to enjoy the natural history exhibits of the Museum

Brit Mus Kings Library
The Kings Library : the British Library is still a part of the Museum

Brit Mus Old Reading Rm
The old reading-room of the Museum, when the British Library is still part of the Museum, and before it is replaced by the great domed Reading Room

Brit Museum Greco-Roman
The newly-opened Greco-Roman Saloon, a rather formidable array of classical statuary

Brit Museum Ladys Seat
In the Reading Room there are seats reserved For Ladies Only

Brit Museum at Montagu H
Giraffes dominate the staircase at Montagu House, home of the Museum until it is demolished and replaced with Smirkes magnificent buildings from the 1820s to the 1850s

Brit Museum Zoo Gallery
The Great Zoological Gallery on Easter Monday is a popular attraction : in 1881 the natural history exhibits will be moved to South Kensington

Brit Museum Reading Rm
Readers in the Reading Room have access to one of the largest collections of books in the world

Brit Museum Constructed
Construction in progress of Smirkes magnificent new buildings to house the Museum, replacing Montagu House whose entrance is still standing at the time this was done

Brit Museum Stacks
The Book Stacks, whence books are retrieved for readers, one by one, and carried on a trolley to the Reading Room where readers await them in scholarly patience

Brit Museum Mammalia
The Mammalia Saloon : the natural history department will not be moved to South Kensington until 1881

British Museum Visitors
Visitors to the British Museum

Australian Art Gallery
The National Art Gallery, New South Wales

British Museum 1850
Exterior view : Smirkes fine buildings will be substantially unchanged until the end of the 20th century

British Museum 1800
Exterior view of the courtyard of the British Museum while housed in Montagu House, which will be replaced by Smirkes buildings between 1823 and 1852

British Museum in 1815
The entrance to Montagu House, home of the Museum until it is replaced by Smirkes buildings between 1823 and 1852

Bm Natural History
The Zoological exhibits at the Museum : they will be moved to South Kensington in 1881, forming the Natural History Museum

Redundant horse becomes a museum piece
In the future the horse as a form of transport will become redundant, and will only be seen in museums

Museums / Europe
Stockholm (Sweden) The Natural History Museum - the Great Hall of the Vertebrates

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