Dispersals

Contents of the Transcribe Wellcome dispersals table. A prototype demonstration for a virtual piecing together of the Wellcome collections' diaspora.

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales

• Example object identified from collection online.

Bibljoteka Nazzjonali - Malta (National Library of Malta)

• Archives of the Knights of Malta (The Order of St. John)

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

• Shabtis with Wellcome identifiers published in Watson, P. (2012) Catalogue of Inscribed Shabtis in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Birmingham Museums Trust.

• Cuneiform tablets published in Watson, P.J. (1986) Catalogue of Cuneiform Tablets in Birmingham City Museum, volume 1. Warminster: Aris & Phillips.

Bolton Museum

• Example Egyptology objects

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

• Example object identified from photograph in Bristol's collections online

British Museum

• Example objects from the prehistory collections

• Objects collected by Winifred Blackman in Egypt

• Objects identified in https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection as donated by Wellcome and originating from Benin City, including objects purchased from Hugh Nevin Nevins

• Objects collected by M.D.W. Jeffreys in sub-Saharan Africa

Durham University Museums

• Objects for which former Wellcome identifiers are recorded in Durham University Museums' internal collections management system. Catalogue records and some digitised images are available from Discover Durham Collections, but do not include Wellcome identifiers.

Egypt Centre - Swansea University

• Objects for which former Wellcome identifiers are recorded in the Egypt Centre Online Collection

Fowler Museum UCLA

• Objects for which former Wellcome identifiers have been researched by staff at the Fowler Museum, including some not currently included in the Digital Collection

Horniman Museum

• Example objects identified from photographs available in the Horniman online catalogue

Hunterian Museum - University of Glasgow

• Example objects identified from photographs available online in the Hunterian online catalogue

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - University of Cambridge

• Example objects identified from online catalogue entries.

Museum of London

• Example objects identified from online catalogue entries, manually checked with transfer records

National Museum Lagos

• Example object identified from correspondence in file WA/HMM/CO/Chr/K.104

National Museums Liverpool

• Example objects identified by museum staff at Liverpool

Petrie Museum - UCL

• Example objects identified from photographs available in the UCL Petrie Collection Online Catalogue, including some manuscripts originally accessioned into the Wellcome library

Pitt Rivers Museum - University of Oxford

• Example objects, mostly collected by Winifred Blackman, identified from the Pitt Rivers Museum Database of Object Collections

Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection (Science Museum loan)

• Science Museum object numbers between A45 and A500529 inclusive for which an online record exists on https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/ (c.21,500 entries)

• Science Museum object numbers between A600001 and A700043 inclusive for which an online record exists on https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/ (c.67,000 entries)

• Science Museum part-numbered objects (/1 and Pt1 etc.) for which an online record exists on https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk (c.5550 entries)

• 'B' loans to the Science Museum for which an online record exists on https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk (c.900 entries)

Stroud District (Cowle) Museum

• 21 objects (mostly casts of prehistoric material) gifted to Stroud Museum in 1982-1983.

The Fitzwilliam Museum - University of Cambridge

• Example objects identified from the Fitzwilliam beta release collection online

Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

• Example objects identified by staff at the Tropenmuseum

University of Leicester, School of Museum Studies

• Example object identified by a member of teaching staff

Victoria and Albert Museum

• Example object identified from the V&A's Explore the Collections

Wellcome Collection

• Early printed books for which accession numbers are recorded in Wellcome's internal collections management system. Catalogue records and digitised images are available from the Wellcome catalogue online, but do not include accession numbers

• Selected manuscripts

• Selected paintings and photographs