WEB DOCUMENTS ON OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS

  
  • Where can you view optical tools used by artists?

A few examples of museums containing sections on artists' techniques

    •   The Victoria and Albert Museum : Gainsborough's box

Gainsborough's peepshow box and the transparencies

    • The Bill Douglas collection at Exeter

The Bill Douglas collection contains documents on the history of the cinema. A part of the collection due to Peter Jewell documents the prehistory of the cinema: optical toys.

also see the magic lantern website

    • The National Museum of Photography , Film, and Television at Bradford, now the National Media Museum

See the VR view of room 88 at the V&A

 

Bill Douglas

 

magic lantern


National Media Museum
  • Where can you find web simulations and interpretations?

A study of websites

    • The Victoria & Albert Museum website
    • The 'precinema' website
    • Websites on toys: the website of Pollock's toys