CONNOISSEURSHIP, PEDAGOGY OR ANTIQUARIANISM? What were instruments doing in the nineteenth-century national collections in Great Britain?
Robert Anderson
In Great Britain in 1850 there were practically no scientific instruments national museum collections. By 1900 three significant collections had been developed, the British Museum, science Museum and Edinburgh of Art. How this change come about? Were similer to one another? What guiding principles behind them? paper investigates these questions
Journal of The History of Collections