The provenance and context of the Giustiniani Medicine Chest

The provenance and context of the Giustiniani Medicine Chest

In autumn 2019 the Science Museum will open its new Medicine Gallery, which is an opportunity to redisplay and reinterpret items from the collection. One object selected as a centrepiece for the new space is the Giustiniani Medicine Chest, which dates from the mid-sixteenth century. This object came...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Julie Ackroyd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science Museum, London 2019-05-01
Series:Science Museum Group Journal
Subjects:
Science Museum
Giustiniani
Interpretation
Provenance
Medicine Chest
Naval Medicine Chest
Medicine
Materia Medica
Wellcome Collection
Genoa
Italian
Turk
Ottoman
Suleiman the Magnificent 1494–1566
John Burdett
Chios
podestà
Venetian
Online Access:http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/issue-11/giustiniani-medicine-chest/
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Summary:In autumn 2019 the Science Museum will open its new Medicine Gallery, which is an opportunity to redisplay and reinterpret items from the collection. One object selected as a centrepiece for the new space is the Giustiniani Medicine Chest, which dates from the mid-sixteenth century. This object came into the Science Museum Collection in 1946 having originally been bought in Italy in 1924 by an agent of Sir Henry Wellcome for his medical collection. This article assesses its provenance and history.
ISSN:2054-5770

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