| Autor: |
Dunn, Richard, Barford, Megan |
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Journal of the History of Collections; Nov2019, Vol. 31 Issue 3, p503-517, 15p |
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This paper considers the role of private collections in the formation of the scientific instrument collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Thanks largely to the support of a rich shipping owner, James Caird, and guided by its first director, Geoffrey Callender, the museum was able voraciously to collect objects of all types in the two decades after its foundation in the 1930s. Concentrating on the acquisition by purchase and through loan of four substantial groups of instruments previously in private hands, the paper considers the museum's motives and some of their consequences with respect to the collecting of scientific instruments; it also addresses questions concerning the scope and nature of the relationship between the scientific and the maritime in the creation of a new national museum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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