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Top UK Destinations for Chinese Objects and Chinoiserie Interiors Part 3.

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  Part 3. Kedleston Hall Kedleston Hall, Derby DE22 5JH https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/kedleston-hall Travelling back through England into the Midlands we arrive at the grand Kedleston Hall. Lived in by George Nathaniel Curzon, Viceroy of India between 1899 and 1905, the hall houses the many objects he amassed during his travels in South Asia and the Middle East. His ‘Eastern Museum’ displays religious, military and domestic objects. The National Trust are intending to change the way the collection is displayed over the next few years stating: ‘we intend to change how the collection is displayed, how the collection is interpreted, whose voices are heard, which truths are represented, the way the property feels, and the internal culture which supports this.’ [1] Erddig Erddig, Wrexham LL13 0YT https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/erddig   Erddig Hall is a Grade-I listed National Trust property in Wrexham, Wales. John Meller, a successful London lawyer, bought up the debt