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The First National Museum - Dublin's Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth century (Hardcover)
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The First National Museum - Dublin's Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth century (Hardcover)
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Dublin's Natural History Museum is a uniquely preserved sliver of
the past, an intact example of a nineteenth-century natural science
collection. While its polished cases and stuffed animals show us
what the museum looked like in its heyday, this book is the first
detailed exploration of its early history, showing how and why it
came into being, and what it meant in nineteenth-century Irish
culture. From its earliest days as a small collection at the Royal
Dublin Society to the gala inauguration of its new home on Merrion
Square in 1857, everyone had an idea about what it was for, and how
natural science would benefit Ireland. It was the first public
museum in Ireland, a project of the RDS that was supported by
central government as an educational venue, and was frequented by
ordinary citizens and visitors as well as leading lights of natural
science. Its history offers a view of science in Ireland showing
that the museum was built over time by donations from citizens and
scientific amateurs as well as professionals, and that Irish men of
science shaped new knowledge from the raw material in the
collections. Far from the aura of genteel nostalgia that continues
to attract visitors today, the Natural History Museum of the
nineteenth century was an active scientific institution with strong
connections to the wider sphere of European science, and shows how
participation in natural science was a form cultural activity for
the people who engaged with the museum.
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