The Holburne Museum
Art museum in a former pleasure-garden hotel, holding a Trafalgar veteran's collection of fine objects.
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This guide to the Holburne Museum in Bath begins off Cape Trafalgar in October 1805, with an eleven-year-old midshipman named William Holburne aboard HMS Orion. It follows the near-religious devotion Britain poured into Nelson's flagship afterwards, and the boy who grew into a quiet collector of silver, porcelain and bronzes. Best heard in the galleries, among the small fine things he chose.
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