Collections and collectors

The Gerda and Salomo Vuorio Foundation is engaged in the popularization of fine and applied arts, as well as educational activities among artists. The organization annually allocates grants to a number of organizations, cooperates with major museums in...

Rays of morning sunlight filtered through the glass cases, giving the already iridescent decorations an extra sparkle. Some of them needed to be moved. Remove something completely. The morning at the jewelry store began as usual. But the silence was...

Historian of the XIX-XX centuries. Campbell Dodgson was responsible for the collection of prints and drawings in the British Museum. He was interested in old books and began his career at the museum as a librarian, and later took up the study of art...

Cecil Green and his wife Ida Green were famous philanthropists and collectors of the XX century. They have made a special contribution to the development of American and English universities and libraries. The couple owned a large fortune and allocated...

When the owners of collections offer museums to accept their objects as a gift, they often indicate that the entire collection should be exhibited in one place and under certain conditions. In the early 1980s, Wendy Reeves decided to give the Dallas...

The English diplomat and collector of the XX century Robert Hogarth traveled a lot, was in Sudan, Israel, Cameroon, and during his trips collected a huge number of tokens and badges of different years. It all started with the accidental discovery of an...

In ancient times, the ability to write was one of the signs of a prestigious position in society, because not everyone could afford to get an education. In the Middle East, the owners kept their writing materials in an expensive and beautifully...

The famous collector Bernard Eckstein was born in 1894, was a talented leader: he managed a syndicate of Sudanese plantations where cotton was grown, was a partner of the mining company Wernher, Beit & Co, operating in South Africa. He inherited the...

Along with books and magazines, collectors of antique printed products collect ephemera - temporary records in printed form. Information on ephemera is rapidly losing its relevance: these are booklets, posters, advertising texts, catalogs, etc. In...

British archaeologist Ernest Budge devoted most of his life to the study of the Ancient East. He was a philologist and historian, mastered several ancient languages, deciphered ancient documents. He paid special attention to Egyptian artifacts, wrote...