From Classification to Recreated ‘Reality’: William Bullock's Exhibitions of Human and Natural History (2020)
In his London Museum (1809), William Bullock organised displays of his animal collections into family and contextual groups within re-creations of their natural surroundings. Subsequently his displays of Saami material re-created its social environment. Bullock’s exhibitions signal a significant moment in the movement from the Linnaean-style classification of natural material by appearance to explanation of it through contextual and inherent qualities. A new kind of meaning was generated, bringing together the natural and the antiquarian in showing that the same approach transformed understanding of both. It shifted emphasis from eighteenth-century natural philosophy towards nineteenth-century science, both natural and human.
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