“Greenwich Mean Time was established in 1884, in no small part because of train travel,” says Hunter, a specialist in 19th-century French art who researches theories of time, among other subjects.

Artists Joseph Drayton and Alfred Agate drew these images of pufferfish and balloonfish in the 19th century as part of a ...

The barn, located on the Château du Crest estate, is now home to a private collection of Swiss landscape paintings that honor the museum’s agricultural setting.