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Image of Duke Humphrey's Library at the Old Bodleian Library located in Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford, United Kingdom

Duke Humphrey's Library at the Old Bodleian Library

One of Europe's oldest libraries

Humphrey Plantagenet had the misfortune of being born too late. He was the youngest son of a King, and thus no king at all. However, thanks to his birth order, rather than fight alongside his... »

Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Nicholas Jackson and others

Image of Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology located in Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford, United Kingdom

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706

In the early 1600s, John Tradescant the Elder and his son, the Younger, opened their house as a cabinet of curiosities with natural and man-made specimens from around the world. (The word "museum"... »

Wonder Cabinets, Unique Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto and Dylan

Image of Pitt Rivers Museum located in Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford, United Kingdom

Pitt Rivers Museum

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers was an English general, but, more importantly, he was a founder of modern anthropology. Though he designed firearms for the military, Pitt Rivers unexpectedly... »

Natural History, Unique Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto and Dylan

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