Rumford actually did establish and run for a number of years a museum devoted primarily to himself, though that was more out of necessity than design. It was to be a rotating display of industrial science, but as most scientists wanted to keep their inventions tightly under wraps for reasons of profit, the space ended up getting filled mainly with Rumford's many innovations, including his way awesome chimney apparatus!
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