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Mobile Museum: Publications

Mobile Museum: Publications

Project publications
Working papers
  • Cornish C, Driver F & Nesbitt M, The Economic Botany Collection at Kew: analysis of accessions data WP1 (2017)
  • Cornish C & Wilkey, B, "Specimens distributed": the circulation of objects from Kew's Economic Botany Collection WP2 (2018)
  • Newman L & Driver F, 'School museums in the history of science and education: learning from Kew' WP3 (2019)
  • Cornish C, Driver F and Nesbitt M 'Mobile Museum school museums initiative' WP4 (2019)
Related publications
  • Cornish C, ‘Botany behind glass: the vegetable kingdom on display at Kew’s Museum of Economic Botany’ in C. Berkowitz and B. Lightman (eds), Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
  • Nesbitt M & C Cornish, ‘Seeds of industry and empire: economic botany collections between nature and culture’ Journal of Museum Ethnography 29 (2016) 53-70
  • Cornish, C, ‘Curating global knowledge: the Museum of Economic Botany at Kew Gardens’ in D. A. Finnegan and J. Wright (eds) Spaces of Global Knowledge: Exhibition, Encounter and Exchange in an Age of Empire (Ashgate, 2015)
  • Salick, J., K. Konchar, and M. Nesbitt (eds) Curating Biocultural Collections: A Handbook (Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2014)
  • F Driver & S Ashmore, ‘The mobile museum: collecting and circulating Indian textiles in Victorian BritainVictorian Studies 52, no. 3 (2010) 353-385

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