Electronic inventory of European bird collections
The Powell-Cotton Museum
What is in the bird collection?
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The Powell-Cotton Museum
Quex Park, Birchington, Kent, C17 0BH, United Kingdom
- Email:
- enquiries@quexmuseum.org
- Website:
- http://www.quexpark.co.uk/museum/
- Tel:
- 01843 842168
- Fax:
Summary
The Powell-Cotton Museum at Quex Park was established in 1896 by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton (1866-1940) to house natural history specimens and cultural objects collected on expeditions to Asia and Africa. Percy Powell-Cotton was a pioneer in the use of the diorama to display mounted animals against backdrops of their natural habitats. The Powell-Cotton Museum’s natural history dioramas are outstanding examples, unique to the UK, stunning for their size, quality and imagery. Today they still excite the imagination of young and old alike and the world-class natural history and ethnographical collections continue to support the study, understanding and simple enjoyment of the zoological, cultural and ecological diversity of Africa and the Indian sub-continent.
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