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The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History is a museum and bar in Hackney Central, situated in a former call centre on Mare Street in the London Borough of Hackney. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is operated by Viktor Wynd [ 3 ] and part of The Last Tuesday Society and was funded on Kickstarter in 2015.
Wynd established The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History in London's East End, a cabinet of curiosities featuring two-headed lambs, Fiji mermaids, unicorns, taxidermy, dodo bones, erotica, old master etchings, surrealist, occult and outsider art, [1] and celebrity faeces. [2]
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) publishes monthly visitor figures for the public sector museums and galleries which it sponsors, which include most of the leading museums in London. The most popular London museum in the private sector is The Sherlock Holmes Museum.
The earliest pictorial record of a natural history cabinet is the engraving in Ferrante Imperato's Dell'Historia Naturale (Naples 1599) (illustration).It serves to authenticate its author's credibility as a source of natural history information, by showing his open bookcases (at the right), in which many volumes are stored lying down and stacked, in the medieval fashion, or with their spines ...
The Last Tuesday Society is a London-based organization founded by William James at Harvard and run by artist Viktor Wynd [1] with directors Allison Crawbuck and Rhys Everett. Based at an eponymous gallery space and cocktail bar in Hackney , the society holds regular absinthe tastings, literary and artistic events.
Bullock began as a goldsmith and jeweller in Birmingham. By 1795, Bullock was in Liverpool, where he founded a Museum of Natural Curiosities at 24 Lord Street.While still trading as a jeweller and goldsmith, in 1801, he published a descriptive catalogue of the works of art, armoury, objects of natural history, and other curiosities in the collection, some of which had been brought back by ...
Curiosities of History; 1857 [4] School-Days of Eminent Men. I. Sketches of the progress of education in England, from the reign of King Alfred to that of Queen Victoria. II. Early lives of celebrated British authors, philosophers and poets, inventors and discoverers, divines, heroes, statesmen &c\. 1858; Curiosities of Science, 1859
The Old Curiosity Shop is the fourth novel by English author Charles Dickens; being one of his two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers reputedly stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final ...