The Secret Museum. Molly Oldfield

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      CONTENTS

       INTRODUCTION

       A GUTENBERG BIBLE ON VELLUM

       HARRISON SCHMITT’S SPACE SUIT

       THREE PIECES OF MARS

       A PIECE OF NEWTON’S APPLE TREE

       THE FIRST CULTIVATED PEARLS

       LAMOUROUXIA VISCOSA SEED FROM MEXICO

       THINGS BENEATH THE FLOORBOARDS

       A BEJEWELLED CROSS

       A HAIDA SHAMAN’S RATTLE

       FRANCIS CRICK’S SKETCH OF DNA

       TABLET K.143, SCHOOL EXERCISE BOOK OF ASHURBANIPAL, KING OF ASSYRIA

       VLADIMIR NABOKOV’S BUTTERFLY GENITALIA CABINET

       CHARLES DICKENS’S FELINE LETTER OPENER

       THE HEART TOKEN

       ITEM RDMSC RD 1/1/1

       AUGUSTE PICCARD’S BALLOON GONDOLA

       JASON JUNIOR

       UNDERWATER PAINTING BY ZARH PRITCHARD

       ANGLERFISH COUPLE

       THE FIRST GIRAFFE IN FRANCE

       A GREAT AUK EGG

       A GLASS JELLYFISH

       THE INTERIOR OF VASA

       FLAG FROM THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR

       A BLUE WHALE

       LOGBOOK OF THE KON-TIKI EXPEDITION

       WALLY HERBERT’S SLEDGE

       SONG 21

       EXU BOCA DE FOGO

       LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY’S HATS

       HAWAI’IAN FEATHER HELMET

       THE LIENZO OF TLAPILTEPEC

       MIXTEC TURQUOISE MOSAIC SHIELD

       ALICIA (1965–67) MURAL BY JOAN MIRÓ AND JOSEP LLORÉNS ARTIGAS

       AN UNOPENED BOOK

       THE DIAMOND SUTRA

       TIBETAN ABBOT’S COSTUME

       TWO GOLDEN BEES, FROM THE GLASS PALACE IN BURMA

       SLAP-SOLED SHOES

       BLOOD’S DAGGER

       TELL HALAF SCULPTURES

       ALFRED NOBEL’S WILL

       SKETCHES OF CHURCHILL

       FRIENDSHIP BOOK

       TORAH ARK CURTAIN

       THE TOWER OF THE BLUE HORSES BY FRANZ MARC

       CHRISTMAS TELEGRAM FROM AGENT ZIGZAG

       A CHANNEL ISLANDS PILLAR BOX

       BUCKINGHAM PALACE SWITCHBOARD

       A LEAF OF GOAT EYE STAMPS

       THE TOOLS THAT BELONGED TO QUEEN VICTORIA’S DENTIST

       SKULL OF A TAPUIASAURUS MACEDOI

       HANDAXE FROM HOXEN

       A SERIES OF PAINTINGS BY OZIAS

       THE SPAULDING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE PRINTS

       VAN GOGH’S SKETCHBOOKS

       BOX IN A VALISE BY MARCEL DUCHAMP

       MARGARET FONTEYN’S TUTU

       STANLEY PEACH’S CENTRE COURT DESIGNS

       ORIGINAL DRAFT OF ‘AULD LANG SYNE’, ROBERT BURNS