Bullock's Museum, Piccadilly

Also known as the London Museum and sometimes the Egyptian Museum. The objects within belonged to a Mr Bullock, who originally set up his museum in Liverpool. He moved the museum to London and built the above edifice in 1812. On the ground floor a Mr Sharpe ran a bookshop, and a Dr Reece ran a druggist's shop. Behind the shops stood a room which featured a carriage once owned by Napoleon and which was a great curiosity in Regency London. On the upper floors the museum contained exhibitions of curiosities from Africa and the Americas, amphibious animals, fishes, insects, shells, minerals and botanical subjects.