Mobile Museum: Data

The following datasets and digitised archive files were created as part of research for the Mobile Museum research project, a collaboration between Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The datasets are freely available on Royal Holloway’s Figshare data archive. The digitised archive files are available on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website. The research was funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council ('The mobile museum: economic botany in circulation', AH/N00941X/1).

Data Files

Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Items Distributed, 1847-1990, complete record

URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.11336084.v1

Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Distribution Events, 1847-1990, complete record

URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.11336075.v1

Kew Museum of Economic Botany: object dispersals to schools, 1877-1982

URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.9573956.v2

Kew Museum of Economic Botany: dispersal data for Cornish & Driver (2019)

URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.10327355.v1

Kew Museum of Economic Botany: regional museums data for Cornish et al (2020)

URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.10327406.v1

Transcribed Archives

These documents are full transcriptions of the archival record of dispersals from the Kew Museum for the period 1881-1990, with links to the original archives now available on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website.

Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Specimens Distributed Book, Vol 1, 1881-1901

URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.11201702.v1

Kew Museum of Economic Botany: Specimens Distributed Book, Vol 1, 1901-1990

URL: https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.11202782.v1