Musaeum Tradescantianum

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Tradescant's Ark

The Musaeum Tradescantianum was the first

his son in a building called The Ark,[1]
and a botanical collection in the grounds of the building. Turret House, the family home, was demolished in 1881 and the estate has been redeveloped; the house stood on the site of the present Tradescant Road and Walberswick Street, off South Lambeth Road.

Tradescant divided the exhibits into natural objects (naturalia) and manmade objects (artificialia).

Oxford University as the nucleus of the newly founded Ashmolean Museum.[4]

The Tradescant collection is the earliest major English

Rudolf II's Kunst- und Wunderkammer was well established at Prague by the end of the 16th century. In 2015 the Garden Museum received a £3.5 million Heritage Lottery grant to recreate a part of the original Ark with loans from the Ashmolean Museum[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ https://www.ashmolean.org/history-ashmolean
  2. ^ "Musaeum Tradescantianum", Ashmolean Museum
  3. ^ "The Tradescant Collection", Ashmolean Museum
  4. ^ Tradescant family
  5. ^ "Garden Museum awarded grant of £3.5million by Heritage Lottery Fund | Heritage Lottery Fund". www.hlf.org.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2015.

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