Powell-Cotton Museum

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The Powell-Cotton Museum is a British museum renowned for its extensive ethnographic and natural history collections, particularly its early 20th-century African dioramas and artifacts.

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instanceOf museum
associatedWith Powell-Cotton family NERFINISHED
collectionSize over 20,000 ethnographic objects
thousands of zoological specimens
country United Kingdom
focusesOn Africa NERFINISHED
Asia
global biodiversity
foundedBy Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton NERFINISHED
hasBuilding Galleries 1–8
Quex House NERFINISHED
hasCollection African artifacts
archaeological material
arms and armour
decorative arts
ethnographic collection
film archives
natural history collection
photographic archives
taxidermy specimens
hasDiorama African savannah dioramas
Asian fauna dioramas
Central African forest dioramas
hasEducationalProgram public talks
research visits
school workshops
hasExhibition Colonial collecting and its legacies
Natural history displays
World cultures displays
hasResearchValue African material culture studies
history of anthropology
history of science
hasSubject colonial history
ethnography
museum studies
natural history
hasWebsite https://powell-cottonmuseum.org
inception 1896
locatedIn England
Kent NERFINISHED
location Birchington-on-Sea NERFINISHED
namedAfter Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton NERFINISHED
notableFor early 20th-century African dioramas
field-collection provenance
large-scale habitat dioramas
openToPublic true
partOf Quex Park NERFINISHED

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Birchington-on-Sea hasMuseum Powell-Cotton Museum