Accessions registers for the Horniman Museum's special collections, including photographic and audio visual collections, from the period they were stored in the museum library. The registers pre-date the use of MIMSY to accession and catalogue the musuem's archive material. Most accession numbers in the registers are prefaced with the letter C and correspond with some entries which remain in the Library catalogue.
Accessions registers for archival material formerly held in the Horniman Museum Library
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Collection Information
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
If you have any further information about objects in our collections or can suggest corrections to our information, please contact us: enquiry@horniman.ac.uk