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CodeCX5955
Dates1896-
Person NamePowell-Cotton Museum; 1896-
ActivityMajor PHG Powell Cotton (1866-1940) founded the Powell Cotton Museum at his home in East Kent to house his increasing collection of mammals and ethnographic material acquired on expeditions to Africa and Asia. He was a pioneer in the use of the natural history diorama to exhibit large mammals against a representation of their habitat. At a time when photography was limited this was the only way of showing African wildlife other than in a zoo and from the first Major Powell Cotton planned his museum as an educational institution. The Quex natural history dioramas feature animals mounted by the noted taxidermist Rowland Ward of London. The Director of the Natural History Museum is a patron and the NHM has representation on the Board of Trustees.
Corporate NamePowell-Cotton Museum
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DF/DIR/933/10/5/1Powell-Cotton Museum: correspondence
DF/DIR/933/10/5Powell-Cotton Museum
DF/DIR/933/10/5/3Powell-Cotton Museum: minutes of Governors' meetings
DF/ZOO/200/130/15Powell-Cotton Museum
DF/DIR/933/10/5/2Powell-Cotton Museum: reports and reviews
DF/ZOO/232/5/16/10/18Merfield Collection
DF/ZOO/230/121/51Kent: Powell-Cotton Museum, Birchington
DF/ZOO/232/5/15/13/11Pinfold, G.F.
DF/PAL/100/101/15Cooke, H Basil S
DF/ADM/1004/580The Powell-Cotton Museum, Birchington, Kent:
DF/DIR/944/3Powell-Cotton Museum - General
DF/DIR/944/4Powell-Cotton Museum Accounts
DF/ZOO/232/5/19/2/19Cotton, Major P H G Powell-
DF/ZOO/232/5/20/2/21Cotton, Major P.H.G. Powell -
DF/ZOO/232/5/16/12/12Pinfold, G.I.
DF/ZOO/232/5/14/15/11Pinfold, G.F.
DF/ZOO/232/5/10/2/13Cotton, Major P.H.G. Powell-
DF/ZOO/232/5/11/5/36Pinfold, G.F.
DF/ZOO/232/5/13/2/1Cotton, Major P.H.G. Powell-
DF/ZOO/232/5/15/4/1Cotton, Major P.H.G. Powell-
DF/ZOO/232/5/16/3/20Cotton, Major P.H.G. Powell-
DF/ZOO/232/5/17/3/1Cotton, Major P.H.G. Powell-
DF/ZOO/232/5/18/4/1Cotton, Diana and Major P.H.Powell-
DF/PAL/141/96Powell-Cotton Museum
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