The Agriculture Gallery: displaying modern farming in the Science Museum

Until January 2017, visitors to the Science Museum’s Agriculture Gallery could look up to view agricultural progress wrought in iron. In 1952, the year after the gallery opened, curator William O’Dea described new exhibits in theMuseums Journal: Above the cases on the long wall of the gallery there...

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1. Verfasser:	David Matless
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Zusammenfassung:	Until January 2017, visitors to the Science Museum’s Agriculture Gallery could look up to view agricultural progress wrought in iron. In 1952, the year after the gallery opened, curator William O’Dea described new exhibits in theMuseums Journal: Above the cases on the long wall of the gallery there is a novel decorative feature, 100 ft long … Scenes from Egyptian, medieval and modern agriculture were made in wrought iron to drawings by Ralph Lavers, ARIBA, and are displayed against a curved fibrous plaster background illuminated by fluorescent lamps. The technique is akin to that of the cyclorama and the