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2020

Journal article

‘Specimens Distributed’: The circulation of objects from Kew’s Museum of Economic Botany, 1847–1914.

This paper presents research on the dispersal of objects from the Museum of Economic Botany at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (rbgk) from 1847 to 1914. Established by William Hooker, the museum received thousands of objects from around the world, the display of which was designed to illustrate plants’ properties...

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Museum of Economic Botany, Twentieth century, Specimen distribution, Ethnographical collections, Nineteenth century, Economic botany museums, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Economic Botany Collection
2020

Journal article

KEW GARDENS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE SCHOOL MUSEUM IN BRITAIN, 1880–1930

The idea of the school museum as an active resource for object-based learning played an important but now neglected part in programmes of educational reform during the closing decades of the nineteenth century and the opening decades of the twentieth. In this article we focus on the role of the...

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Museum of Economic Botany, Great Britain, Twentieth century, Ethnographical collections, School museums, Nineteenth century, Economic botany museums, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Economic Botany Collection