Derby Museum Midland Railway model

[009 micro modeller]

On 18/10/2023 at 23:12, pete_mcfarlane said:

In some cases they are arranged by material, for no obvious reason (because the curators didn't know anything about the objects but could see what they were made of?). 

The V&A’s collection is also, notably, categorised by material - I’m not sure why this is a problem, especially for a museum of this type.

[pete_mcfarlane]

This is an industrial museum, so surely you'd want to keep things from different industries together to make a meaningful display?

 

Putting all the ceramics in one section makes sense for the V&A, but not where you've got Telegraph insulators in the ceramic section, and the block instruments they connect in 'wood'. Which is what the Derby museum has done.