Dodos and Dark Lanterns
By David A. Berry.
Description
Tells the story of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, the world's first university museum, dating from the late 1600sNot your traditional approach to a museum history, but told through anecdotes about people famous and not-so and the objects they treasuredIt all started with the bequest of a cabinet of curios called "The Ark"Dodos & Dark Lanterns tells the fascinating story of Oxford's Ashmolean, the first public museum in the world. Through a series of interesting anecdotes, based on objects from the Ashmolean's collections, the book traces the eventful history ...
ISBN(s)
1854442813, 9781854442819
