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Description: | -Begun in 1901 to illustrate past and present material culture of ophthalmic opticians (optometrists). Over eleven thousand outstanding items of ophthalmic and optical interest. Includes over 2000 pairs of spectacles, from 17th c. through to 21st c. as well as historic examples of other optical devices and aids to vision including scissor spectacles, folding eyeglasses, pince-nez, lorgnettes, magnifiers, quizzing glasses and monocles. The Museum also includes a collection of over 500 antique prints as well as oil paintings, sculptures and decorative art items on optical themes. It preserves a wide range of ophthalmic optometric instruments, visual test charts, orthoptic and hygienic devices. It is considered to be the national specialist collection for contact lenses and contact lens accessories. It also has specialist collections relating to photography, pharmacy and ocular prosthetics.
- | Subjects: | optometrist optician spectacles lens | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 020 7839 6800 | Telephone: | 020 7766 4353 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5988 | Go to resource |
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