-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 & 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...
-Tells the story of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, the world's first university museum, dating from the late 1600s -Not your traditional approach t...
