Reports on three topics from the Royal British Columbia Museum in British Columbia, Canada: upgrading of hat storage, upgrading a teddy bear mount, and installing garment storage units. Hat storage in the history collection was upgraded using metal, enamelled, biology specimen cabinets with ...
(EMOWAA). Investigating the archaeology of the Kingdom of Benin, including buried remains below the site, the EMOWAA Archaeology Project is set to start in 2021, involving theLegacy Restoration Trust(LRT) and theBritish Museumwith the local communities, the Benin Royal Court, the Government of...
The Royal BC Museum had the most beautiful exhibits that I have seen yet in a museum. Many of the exhibits had a wonderful interactive element to them which I found to be extremely engaging. All of the displays were impeccably designed giving me a new appreciation for the talents of museum...
Founded in 1753, the British Museum was the first national public museum in the world. From the outset it was a museum of the world, for the world, and this idea still lies at the heart of the Museum’s mission today. The Museum’s collection tells the stories of cultures across the ...
Thomson Bros. Book Store in Calgary (near left), c. 1885 (Glenbow Museum) And now here they were, in the fall of 1886, setting up shop in the CPR’s soon-to-be terminus of Vancouver, just down Cordova Street from booksellersS.T. TilleyandBritish Columbia Stationery and Printing(later ...
Princess Charlotte of Wales, 1816. PICTURE: Royal Collection Trust/© His Majesty King Charles III 2023 • The only royal wedding dress that survives from the Georgian period – the silk embroidered bridal gown of Princess Charlotte of Wales, daughter of King George IV – is one of the st...
P. Corley-Smith (1989) White Bears and Other Curiosities: The First 100 Years of the Royal British Columbia Museum Royal British Columbia Museum Victoria Google Scholar E. H. Craigie (1966) A History of the Department of Zoology of the University of Toronto up to 1962 University of Toront...
British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum to lend treasures that had belonged to Asante royal court to west African country in three-year deal Thu Jan 25 2024 - 22:30After 220 years, the fate of the Parthenon marbles rests in secret talks The British Museum and Greece’s prime minister...
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and that was an almost throwaway comment made by diaristJohn Evelyn. He attended the ‘philosophical supper’ where Papin cooked for the members of theRoyal Society, everything pressure-cooked in his “Digester”. Evelyn wrote about in his diary and described how deliciously tender everything was...