Research Seminar Report

The second Department of Museum Studies research seminar of the new academic year (13th November 2006) was a presentation by Fiona Kerlogue from the Horniman Museum entitled 'South-east Asia in the Museum. The development of the South-east Asian collections of the Horniman Museum, London, 1891-1925'.

Fiona discussed the development of the Horniman's South-east Asian collections and modes of display from it's inception as a private collection of curiosities, to public museum arranged to illustrate popular theories of technological evolution.