Curiosities from the Cabinet

Introduction: Opening the cabinet Inside the cabinet The touchable Quilt St Fagans Museum Bastet figurine Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Anointing spoon replica Royal Historic Palaces online gift shop The recreated Casts of Parthenon Sculptures Elgin Museum Colossus rebuild The National Museum of Computing Lucifer Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery The ephemeral Mermaid flyer Centre for Ephemera Studies Toilet paper Land of Lost Content Twitter feed The British Library The lethal Mercury Ulster Museum Flint-lock pistols Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Euthanasia machine Science Museum The dead Barn owl Booth Museum of Natural History Crocodile handbag Cole Museum of Zoology Jeremy Bentham auto-icon University College London The living Leafcutter ants Liverpool World Museum Darwin's weed garden Down House Captain Woodget The Cutty Sark The extinct Quagga skeleton Grant Museum of Zoology Babylonian map of the world British Museum Bend used for peat flittin' Fetlar Interpretive Centre The mobile Skeleton marionette Victoria and Albert Museum Wave machine Whipple Museum of the History of Science Brantly B2B helicopter Helicopter Museum The verbal Paradise Lost Milton's Cottage Wesley monument Museum of London Probate copy of the will of Thomas Leyland International Slavery Museum The domestic Britains toy farm set Museum of English Rural Life Homemaker plate Brighton Museum and Art Gallery Jane Austen's writing table Jane Austen's House Museum The huge Coal mine Big Pit National Coal Museum Emigrant sailing ship Ulster American Folk Park Monasterboice cross Victoria and Albert Museum The curious Hans Sloane's specimen tray British Museum Powhatan's mantle Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary Garden Museum Closing the cabinet References and further resources List of museums