Chinese Museum (Boston)

Cover of guidebook to the museum, 1845

The Chinese Museum (1845–1847) in Boston, Massachusetts, showed to the public some 41 cases displaying approximately 800 objects related to Chinese fine arts, agriculture, costume, and other customs. It was located on Washington Street in the Marlboro Chapel (between Bromfield and Winter Streets).[1]

Detail of 1844 map of Boston, showing vicinity of the museum off Washington Street

Items exhibited included:

By 1847 the museum "ceased to be attractive and profitable, and ... was removed to Philadelphia."[3]

References

  1. The Marlboro Chapel was built in 1837 for the First Free Congregational Church, behind the Marlboro Hotel at no.229 Washington Street. Cf. Boston Almanac. 1838, 1847.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 John R. Peters, Jr. (1845), Miscellaneous remarks upon the government, history, religions, literature, agriculture, arts, trades, manners, and customs of the Chinese: as suggested by an examination of the articles comprising the Chinese museum, in Marlboro' Chapel, Boston, Boston: Eastburn's Press, retrieved 12 Feb 2010
  3. Nathaniel Dearborn (1851), Dearborn's reminiscences of Boston, Boston: Printed by N. Dearborn

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