Victoria Pickering from The British Museum delivers a talk titled “Sealed and Concealed: The Visible and Not-so-Visible Uses of a Botanical Collection.” This talk was included in the session titled “Hiding.”

Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Victoria Pickering from The British Museum delivers a talk titled “Sealed and Concealed: The Visible and Not-so-Visible Uses of a Botanical Collection.” This talk was included in the session titled “Hiding.” Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Sealed and Concealed: The Visible and Not-so-Visible Uses of a Botanical Collection

Early modern collections played a key role in the creation and transmission of knowledge, but they are usually studied in terms of the objects they contained or how they came to exist. This conference instead explores how they were actually used in the 16th and 17th centuries. The conference was held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

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Sealed and Concealed: The Visible and Not-so-Visible Uses of a Botanical Collection

Sealed and Concealed: The Visible and Not-so-Visible Uses of a Botanical Collection