A guide to the English pottery and porcelain in the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities;

Mode of access: Internet.

Egyptian sculptures in the British museum,

Mode of access: Internet.

The Mausoleum and sculptures of Halicarnassos and Prienè, in the British museum ...

"Part V. (Volume II.) of a Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman antiquities, by A. H. Smith."

Hieroglyphic texts from Egyptian stelae, &c., in the British museum.

"The drawings, copies of the texts, and the descriptions of the plates are the work of Mr. P. D. Scott-Moncrieff."-Pref.

The Foote collection of Indian prehistoric and protohistoric antiquities ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The treasure of the Oxus, with other objects from ancient Persia and India , bequeathed to the Trustees of the British museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks ...

At head of title: Franks bequest.

Museum Disneianum, being a description of a collection of ancient marbles, specimens of ancient bronze, and various ancient fictile vases in the possession of John Disney ... at the Hyde, near Ingatestone.

Parts II-III have special t.-p.; pt.II has imprint: London, J. Rodwell, 1848.

The William Hammer collection of Greek and Roman antiquities.

Mode of access: Internet.

Museum, object and information

This text aims to approach museums` role in the production of knowledge and how objects are transformed into documents when museums incorporate them. On accepting the effects of such transformation, museums start working not only with material goods, but also symbolic goods. The collection manager or exhibition curator communicate through documents rather than bringing into light its intrinsic content. In this sense, every process involving museum documents, from the selection of collections to exhibitions, has a rhetoric and ideological nature which is given. Museums must search for meanings through correlations established in the process of producing information. Exhibitions should present objects in multiple contexts, giving visitors the opportunity to participate and attribute their own meanings to them.