17 Thursday / January 17, 2013

Lecture: ‘Holophusicon – An Eighteenth-Century English Institution of Science, Curiosity, and Art’

05:30 pm
Fine Arts Building (Room 102)
http://www.artmuseum.iu.edu/iuam_home.php

This special lecture will be presented by Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator of Ethnography, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History.

The Holophusicon (“embracing all of nature”) or Levarian Museum was founded in 1771 as the world’s first popular museum of science, curiosity, and art. Its contents included the largest collection of specimens and objects collected on Captain Cook’s voyage, as well as sculptured heads from the Cave of Elephanta in India, Oliver Cromwell’s armor, the Turkish clothing and guns of Edward Wortley 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. Following the lecture, a reception will be held in the Thomas T. Solley Atrium in the IU Art Museum. Admission to this program is free.

Cost: Free

For more information contact:

(812)855-5445
[email protected]

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