Scholars, Travellers and Trade: The pioneer years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden 1818-1840

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R. B. Halbertsma, Scholars, Travellers and Trade: The pioneer years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden 1818–1840 . London and New York, Routledge, 2003. ISBN 041–527630–6. xiv + 182 pp., 25 b. & w. illus. £50. The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is one of the oldest public museums of its kind. Its history is closely linked to the chair of archaeology at Leiden University, founded in 1818. Caspar Jacob Christiaan Reuvens was appointed in that year both professor of archaeology and director of the university's ‘archaeological cabinet’. Apart from ground-breaking work as an archaeologist, Reuvens also managed to make out of this rather eclectic and poorly housed collection a real museum, which could (and still can) compete with institutions abroad and for which he acquired a number of additional collections which still form the core of the present-day holdings. In this well-researched and excellently written study...

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