Abstract:Museums of Natural Sciences : Science or Art ? Museums of Natural Sciences found their origins in the old Wunderkammern. From its creation in 1635 as a royal collection, the National Museum in Paris was a centre of close relationship between sciences and artists, those at least who found their sources of inspiration in Nature. On the other hand, scientists needed artists to draw Nature and keep traces of what they were studying. If, to-day, we chiefly give these images an artistic and historical value, at the … Show more
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