Newyork Houses Museum, which is composed of two historic houses, Wygston’s Chantry House and Skeffington House, tells the story of 20th century Leicester and the history of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment. The new displays include room settings from the 1950s and 70s, a cinema experience, a collection of toys from Tudor to present day and […]

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The founding of the University of Pennsylvania Museum in the 1880s was part of the great wave of institution-building that took place in the United States after the American Civil War. The new wealth created after the Civil War gave incentive to philanthropy as a means of earning social recognition, and many wealthy and […]

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