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Dozens of eye-catching photos, sidebars filled with quirky facts, vivid descriptions, and practical information make this a unique and complete guide to more than 500 museums.
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• Introduction: museum historiographies
• 1. Prologue: the Manchester Natural History Society
• 2. Nature: scientific disciplines in the museum
• 3. Culture: artefacts and disciplinary formation
• 4. Acquisition: collecting networks and the museum
• 5. Practice: technique and the lives of objects in the collection
• 6. Visitors: audiences and objects Conclusion: the museum in the twentieth century Notes List of archives Bibliography Index.
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Newly available in paperback, this book takes the University of Manchester's Museum as its subject. By setting the museum in its cultural and intellectual contexts, Nature and culture explores twentieth-century collecting and display, and the status of the object in the modern world. Beginning with the origins of the Manchester Museum, accounting for its development as an internationally renowned university museum, and concluding at its major expansion at the turn of the millennium, this book casts new light on the history of museums. How did objects become knowledge? Who encountered museum objects on their way to museums? What happened to collections within the museum? How did visitors use and respond to objects? In answering these questions, Nature and culture illuminates not only the history of one institution, but also contributes to wider discussions in the history of science, cultural history and museology.
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• Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum
• Charles Willson Peale and his Philadelphia Museum
• Dominique Vivant Denon and the Louvre of Napoleon
• William Jackson Hooker and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew
• Henry Cole and the South Kensington (Victoria and Albert) Museum
• Ann Pamela Cunningham and Washington's Mount Vernon
• Wilhelm Bode and Berlin's Museum Island
• Artur Hazelius and Skansen
• George Brown Goode and the Smithsonian Museums
• Carl Hagenbeck and his Stellingen Tierpark
• Oskar von Miller and the Deutsches Museum
• John Cotton Dana and the Newark Museum.