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Introduction

Introduction—object habits: Legacies of fieldwork and the museum

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Figure 1. 1904 certificate of thanks from Bankfield Museum for objects presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund. The vignettes illustrate the dense universalist displays of world culture towards which UK municipal museums aspired in the early twentieth century. Courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society, Lucy Gura archive, DIST.21.36.

Figure 1. 1904 certificate of thanks from Bankfield Museum for objects presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund. The vignettes illustrate the dense universalist displays of world culture towards which UK municipal museums aspired in the early twentieth century. Courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society, Lucy Gura archive, DIST.21.36.