Essays on museums
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Essays on museums
（The history of museums）
Routledge/Thoemmes, 1996
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Essays on museums : and other subjects connected with natural history
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"And other subjects connected with natural history"--Original t.p
Reprint. Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1898
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Description
Museums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies. This selected group of key texts opens the investigation and appreciation of museum history. Edward Edwards, chief pioneer of municipal public libraries, chronicles the founders and early donors to the British Museum. Greenwood and Murray provide informative pictures of the early history of the museum movement. Sir William Flower, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), takes a pioneering philosophical approach to the sphere of natural history in relation to museums. Similarly, Acland and Ruskin discuss and explore the relationships of art and architecture to museums.
Table of Contents
- Volumes 1 & 2 Lives of the Founders of the British Museum
- with Notices of its Chief Augmentors and other Benefactors 1570-1870 (1870) Edward Edwards 428pp/370pp Volume 3 Museums and Art Galleries (1888) Thomas Greenwood 447pp Volume 4 The Oxford Museum, from the original edition of 1859
- with additions in 1893 (1893) Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st bart and John Ruskin 148pp Volume 5 Essays on Museums, and other Sujects connected with Natural History (1898) Sir William Henry Flower 411pp Volumes 6-8 Museums: their History and their Use (1904) David Murray 355pp/363pp/341pp
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