Institutions Which Acknowledge Historical Aspects of Antique Vision Aids

Anaglyph glasses, not signed but likely of French production, circa 1870, Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica, Florence (Foundation of Science and Technology). These pince nez allow one to see tri-dimensionally an image made of two images, also coloured.

Leather case housing very rare spectacles, circa 1700, Science Museum, London

An Old Lady with a Book, oil on canvas, 1637, Rembrandt van Rijn and Workshop, Dutch 1606-1669, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.73, National Gallery of Art (Click to visit their website.)

Silver round frame, double turn-pin sides, so that it wraps all around the head, maker - Harris Holbein, circa 1830s, Museum and Library of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, London, quite unusual

Steel round frame spectacles, very wide bridge, sinuous sides, circular finials with pads, circa 1820, very rare

• akg-images (formerly known as "Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte"), Berlin Germany
• The Bakkehus Museum (Bakkehusmuseet), Frederiksberg, Denmark
• Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, Germany
• Belle Grove Plantation, Middletown, Virginia
• Berkshire County Historical Society, Pittsfield, MA
• Blair Castle, Blair Atholl, Pitlochry, United Kingdom
• Blicheregnens Museum, Kjellerup, Denmark
• The British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London
• Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire, UK
• Carpenter Museum, Rehoboth, MA
• Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
• Centro Studi Antoniani, Padova, Italy
• Channel 4's 'Time Team', London
• Chimayo Museum, Chimayo, NM
• Cliveden of the National Trust, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
• The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
• East Ayrshire Council Arts and Museums Service, Scotland, UK
• English Heritage (Down House- Downe, Kent), UK
• Edison National Historic Site, National Park Service, Glenmont, West Orange, NJ
• Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA
• The Fan Museum, Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
• Ford Museum and Theater Historic Site, Washington, DC
• Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA
• The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
• Freud Museum, London, United Kingdom
• Haus Der Musik, Vienna, Austria
• Herning Museum, Herning, Denmark
• Hildene, Manchester, Vermont
• Historic Northampton Museum & Education Center, Northampton, MA
• Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Vienna, Austria
• International Museum of Surgical Science (IMSS)
• Edward Jenner Museum, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
• Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
• Harding Home State Memorial, Ohio Historical Society, Marion, OH
• Karl-Sudhoff-Institut, Leipzig, Germany
• Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, Concord, MA
• Ministry of the Interior, Rome, Italy
• Moyse’s Hall Museum, Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom
• Musee de l’Armee, Paris, France
• Museum and Library of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, London
• Museum Brouwershuis, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin
• Museum of London
• Museum of London Archeological Services
• Museum of History & Industry, Seattle, WA
• Museum of the Mountain Man, Sublette County Historical Society Inc, Pinedale, WY
• Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
• The National Board of Antiquities Archives for Print and Photographs, Helsinki, Finland
• National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi, India
• The National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, Chicago, IL
• National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
• National Plastics Center, Leominster, MA
• Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
• Odense City Museums/ Hans Christian Andersen Museum, Odense, Denmark
• Ostfriesisches Teemuseum, Norden, Germany
• Pioneer Memorial Museum, Salt Lake City, UT
• Renaissance Society of America, The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY
• Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, Rhode Island
• Sainsbury African Gallery, British Museum, London, UK
• Seoul National University Medical School Museum, South Korea
• Shadows on the Teche, New Iberia, LA
• Skokloster Castle, Sweden
• Società Siciliana per la Storia Patria-Palermo
• Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco, CA
• Stadtarchaologe, Stadt Lueneburg
• State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
• Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
• University of Padua, Padua, Italy
• Villa San Michele, Anacapri, Italy
• Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Nr Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK
• Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury, Wilts
• Wheaton College, Norton, MA
• Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, UK
• Worcestershire County Museum, Hartlebury Castle, Hartlebury Nr Kidderminster, Worcestershire, UK

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