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Oliver Impey
Books by Oliver Impey
The Origins of Museums
The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth-and-Seventeenth-Century Europe
Edited by Oliver Impey and Arthur MacGregor
History Today carried a feature in 2015, describing The Origin of Museums as "a cult book [that] spawned a new discipline in the history of collecting". Indeed, the first publication of this book in 1985 undoubtedly marked a propitious moment in the development of interest, in what has since grow...