Exercise 5. Write down the questions for these answers

1. The collections of the Antiquities Department contain a wide range of objects from the Palaeolithic to Victorian periods; from Egypt and the Middle East to Europe and Britain.

2. Cast Gallery Collection comprises casts from sculpture from museums around the world.

3. Eastern Art Collections contain a lot of objects from India, Tibet and South East Asia, China, Japan and Korea.

4. There is a large collection of coins and medals in the Heberden Coin Room.

5. The coins in the Heberden Coin Room are mostly from Greece, Islamic countries, India and China.

6. The collections of the Museum of Natural History are accumulated in the course of the last three centuries.
One of the purposes of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History collections is to promote research in the natural sciences.

7. The Pitt Rivers Museum was founded in 1884.

8. The founder of the Pitt Rivers Museum is Lt.-General Pitt Rivers.

9. Lt.-General Pitt Rivers was an influential figure in the development of archaeology and anthropology.

10. Giving his collection to the University Pitt Rivers had two conditions.

11. The Pitt Rivers’ conditions were that a building was built to house the collection and that someone should be appointed to lecture in anthropology.

12. There were more than 18,000 objects in the Pitt Rivers' gift.

13. The Pitt Rivers’ collection augmented from 18,000 objects to half a million.

14. Many objects were donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum by anthropologists and explorers.

15. The sound archive of the Pitt Rivers Museum contains early records of great importance.

16. Today the Pitt Rivers Museum is an active teaching department of the University of Oxford.

17. The collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum grows through donations, and the work of the students.

Exercise 6. Say whether these sentences are true or false and explain why.

A. about the Museum of the History of Science

1. The Museum houses an unrivalled collection of paintings.

2. The Museum is well known by virtue of the collection and its building.

3. The Museum is not a department of the University of Oxford.

4. The objects of the Museum are available for study by historians.

5. The books of the Museum are not very interesting for the historians.

6. There is about a million of objects in the Museum.

7. The objects represented in the Museum are all antique.

8. There is a large collection of early mathematical instruments, but there are no optical ones.

9. There are a lot of apparatus associated with chemistry in the Museum.

10. You can find incunabula, prints and printed ephemera in the Museum.