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Collections & Collectors: 14. The Manchester Museum

Geological Curator, 1977
The following notes provide an outline of the history of the Museum, its scope and services, and of some of its more important collections. Emphasis has been placed on the last twenty-five years, that is since Jackson (1952) compiled a list of type and figured specimens in the Department of Geology.
Michael Eager, Rosemary Preece
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The private collector's impact on museum collections

2021
This thesis examines the relationship between private collectors and nonprofit organizations to understand how private collectors impact museum collections. The paper includes a case study on The James A. Michener Art Museum, and specifically the groundbreaking 1999 bequest of 59 paintings to the museum, by Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest.
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Collections & Collectors: 1. Lichfield Museums

Geological Curator, 1974
It was thought that a series of articles on Museums and collections of importance might be of interest to members of the Group,
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Collections & Collectors: 39. The Sedgwick Museum Cambridge

Geological Curator, 1981
The Sedgwick Museum houses major palaeontological collections of international importance associated with one of the World's oldest geological Professorships. Its collections, because of their early start (certain specimens date back to 17th century collections),^ their rapid growth throughout the 19th century and the very active palaeontological and ...
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The Creation of the National Museum of Colombia (1823–1830): A History of Collections, Collectors, and Museums

Museum History Journal, 2016
The National Museum of Colombia was inaugurated on 4 July 1824. This museum was created along with a mining school in a post-revolutionary political context during the wars of independence. Museums in South America created in the early nineteenth century are seen as state formulations embedded in nationalist rhetoric conceived within the newborn states.
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Collections & Collectors: 15. The Tempest Anderson collection of photographs At Yorkshire Museum.

Geological Curator, 1978
This article results from a preliminary survey, lasting some seven days, of the Tempest Anderson Collection of photographs in the Yorkshire Museum at York, and deals especially with the photographs of volcanoes and of volcanic structures and phenomena.
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Collections & Collectors: 55. Geological Collectors and Museums in Cheltenham 1810-1988: a case history and its lessons

Geological Curator, 1990
In what follows HST deals with all nineteenth century collections (the first Museums, Institution, Naturalists' Association and Natural Science Society, Ladies College and Cheltenham College's collections and their dispersal) while MAT deals with those of the twentieth century (including the present Art Gallery and Museum and the College of St Paul and
Hugh S. Torrens, Michael A. Taylor
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