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Brushed with fame: museological investments in the Cook voyage collections
Lissant Bolton, British Museum, United Kingdom
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Historian Lissant Bolton considers the nature of Captain James Cook’s fame in a museological context and discusses how difficult it is to present artefacts from the Pacific in an exhibition without reference to Cook’s three voyages.
Captain James Cook series
- Encounters with wondrous things: the historical significance of the Cook-Forster CollectionProfessor Paul Turnbull, Griffith University
- Discovering Cook: Georg Forster and the image of Captain CookNigel Erskine, Australian National Maritime Museum
- To attempt some new discoveries in that vast unknown tractProfessor Adrienne Kaeppler, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, United States
- Looking across the beach – both waysProfessor Greg Dening, Australian National University
- Footprints in the sand: Banks’ Maori collection, Cook’s first voyage 1768-1771Paul Tapsell, Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand
- Cook, his mission and Indigenous Australia: a perspective on consequenceDoreen Mellor, National Library of Australia
- Brushed with fame: museological investments in the Cook voyage collectionsLissant Bolton, British Museum, United Kingdom
