What’s your personality like? Long before BuzzFeed or the Myers-Briggs personality test, there was phrenology—a pseudoscience that used the lumps and bumps of human skulls to tease out the secrets of ...

Squinting at the jeweled snuff box of Frederick the Great in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, it occurs to me that you could make a theme tour called “Exquisite London.” It would feature the ...

Snuff is a tobacco product that people put into their noses or mouths. Even though it is smokeless, snuff and snus carry the same adverse health risks as smoking cigarettes. Some people believe the ...

A highlight is the amazing museum established by the profit from the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Victoria and Albert Museum. Squinting at the jeweled snuff box of Frederick the Great in London’s ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Tortoiseshell snuff box with a ...