The Boston Museum, 28 Tremont Street, Boston c. 1903
Constructed in 1846, designed by Hammatt Billings.
From an 1850 newspaper advertisement:
"The museum is the largest, most valuable, and best arranged in the
United States. It comprises no less than seven different museums, to
which has been added the present year, besides the constant daily
accumulation of articles, one half of the celebrated Peale's
Philadelphia Museum, swelling the already immense collection to upwards
of half a million articles, the greatest amount of objects of interest
to be found together at any one place in America; and an entirely new
hall of wax statuary.... and the immense collection of birds, beasts,
fish, insects and reptiles;... paintings, engravings and statuary; ...
Egyptian mummies, ... family of Peruvian mummies; the duck-billed
platypus;... the curious half-fish, half-human Fejee Mermaid;... elephants and ourang-outangs..." Source.
Interior of the Boston Museum
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