HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Peale Museum, Linnaean Taxonomy
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Combining of cultures: caribbean: coconut, europe: biblical pictures. Scientifica things made to control/understand earth/world. Then they were shown as a way to show wealth, worldly connections. Wunderkammer represented order of nature/the way humans saw natural order. Sloane liked to travel, collecting samples of flora and fauna, in order to bring back for classification. Sloane collected so many objects that they eventually became the core of the british. Modern museums emerged from combinations of private art collections and the. Viewed museum as way for public education. The museum was laid out in linnean classification (an old world method) and was used as a method of entertainment (capitalism, an new world trend: tied old and new world together. First time backlighting and background paintings were used in a museum. The lands that europe was pulling these objects from had no need to showcase their own objects as curiosities.
