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17 Thursday / January 17, 2013

‘Holophusicon, the Leverian Museum: An Eighteenth-Century English Institution of Science, Curiosity, and Art’

05:30 pm to 06:30 pm
TBD, check www.artmuseum.iu.edu
http://www.artmuseum.iu.edu

Special Lecture

Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator of Ethnography, SmithsonianInstitution, National Museum of Natural History

The Holophusicon (“embracing all of nature”) or Leverian Museum was founded in 1771 as the world’s first popular museum of science, curiosity, and art. Its contents included the largest collection of Cook-voyage specimens and objects ever exhibited in one place, in addition to sculptured heads from the Cave of Elephanta in India, Oliver Cromwell’s armor, the Turkish clothing and guns of Edward Wortly Montague, birds,
fossils, and minerals. This lecture tells the remarkable story of this extraordinary collection and follows these important objects through numerous hands to public and private collections around the world.

Cost: free

For more information contact:

Jennifer Wagelie
(812)855-5445

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