Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Andrea Corsini and the Creation of the Museum of the History of Science in Florence (1930-1961) -- Chapter 2 "Not for their Beauty": Instruments and Narratives at the Science Museum, London -- Chapter 3 "More Artistic than Scientific": Exhibiting Instruments as Decorative Arts in the Victoria and Albert Museum -- Chapter 4 "Of Sufficient Interest . . ., but not of Such Value . . .": 260 Years of Displaying Scientific Instruments in the British Museum -- Chapter 5 Instruments on Display at the Paris Observatory -- Chapter 6 Looking at Scientific Instruments on Display at the United States Centennial Exhibition of 1876 -- Chapter 7 Permanent Demonstrations: The Science Teaching Museum at the University of Chicago -- Chapter 8 The Display of Twentieth-Century Instruments at Humboldt State University -- Chapter 9 Slide Rules on Display in the United States, 1840-2010 -- Chapter 10 "Exceedingly Ridiculous": Telescopes on Display on the Seventeenth-Century Stage -- Chapter 11 Instruments on Movie Sets: A Case Study -- Chapter 12 Display of Instruments on Seventeenth-Century Astronomical Frontispieces -- Index.