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Souvenir Set of Matchboxes with Card Box, from the Polytechnical Museum, Moscow, Late 20th Century

Inventory Number 95138


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.95138

Item type
Object
Provenance
Issued by the Polytechnical Museum, Moscow
Dimensions
Height: 255mm Width: 85mm Depth: 23mm Weight: 220g
Inventory No
95138
Accession Number
1998-20

Description

Souvenir set of matchboxes from the Moscow Polytechnical Museum. The card box contains 18 matchboxes still containing their matches. The set of matchboxes illustrates the collections of the Polytechnical Museum in Moscow, with each of the matchboxes carrying an image of one of the highlights of the Polytechnical Museum.