ABSTRACT In the last years of his life, eccentric art collector and New York politician Rush Hawkins laboured over the creation of a memorial museum to honour his late wife, a descendant of the Brown family of Rhode Island, and house the collection of art and incunabula that he spent a lifetime acquiring. Hawkins created an eclectic museum organised according to his personal collecting, with the graves of his wife and himself intended to anchor the collection in perpetuity. After his death, the Memorial became an out-dated relic of the past, poorly funded and without effective leadership. Absorbed by Brown University in the 1940s, parts of the Memorial’s collections have been dispersed to other university units and the building adapted for other uses.

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“没有什么必须改变”：拉什霍金斯失落的纪念博物馆

摘要 在他生命的最后几年，古怪的艺术收藏家和纽约政治家拉什霍金斯致力于建立一座纪念博物馆，以纪念他已故的妻子，罗德岛布朗家族的后裔，并收藏艺术品和古怪的作品。他一生都在获得。霍金斯根据他的个人收藏创建了一个不拘一格的博物馆，他的妻子和他自己的坟墓旨在永久固定收藏。在他去世后，纪念馆成为过去的过时遗迹，资金不足，没有有效的领导。1940 年代被布朗大学吸收，纪念馆的部分藏品已分散到其他大学单位和改建为其他用途的建筑。