Mug: "The Horniman Free Museum"

Mug; brown image and text on white ground. One half of the mug depicts frontage of the Museum, including clocktower and mosaic; image titled "The Horniman Free Museum". The other half of the mug bears the text: "The Horniman Museum and Garden; On completion in 1901 the building, designed by C. Harrison Townsend in the Art Nouveau style, was presented by Frederick Horniman MP with its contents and the adjoining Gardens to the people of London as a free museum for their recreation, instruction and enjoyment."

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MUSEUM NUMBER
ARC/HMG/PR/008/A/003
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
2 mugs
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
ceramic
CATEGORY
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