Dodos Dark Lanterns Highlights by David Berry (5 results)

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Softcover, 98pp., 26.5x19.5cm., richly illustr. in col., new. ISBN 9781854442819. Tells the story of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, the world's first university museum, dating from the late 1600s Not your traditional approach to a museum history, but told through anecdotes about people famous and not-so and the objects they treasured It all started with the bequest of a cabinet of curios called "The Ark" Dodos and 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 of this remarkable institution, which evolved from a cabinet of curiosities, representing the world in microcosm, into a museum of art and archaeology, illustrating connections between cultures over time. In the process, it introduces a host of colorful characters, such as a local confectioner named James Sadler who became the first English aeronaut and a young schoolboy known as Ned who grew up to be the legendary Lawrence of Arabia. Contents: Map of Oxford; Introduction; Tradescant's Orchard; Powhatan's Mantle; Praemia Honoraria; Statutes Order 0 g.