Mermaids, mummies, and mastodons : the emergence of the American museum : [exhibition]

著者

• Alderson, William T. (William Thomas)
• American Association of Museums
• Baltimore City Life Museums
• Peale Museum

書誌事項

Mermaids, mummies, and mastodons : the emergence of the American museum : [exhibition]

edited by William T. Alderson for the Baltimore City Life Museums, Baltimore, Md

American Association of Museums, 1992

注記

"The ... exhibition ran from Dec. 1, 1990 to June 30, 1992 at the Peale Museum in Baltimore"--P. 17

Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-99) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A "Feejee mermaid," the skeletal remains of a "wooly mammoth," and a "cabinet of learned turkies which will dance to music," were attractions at Baltimore's Peale Museum in the early 1800s. As the nation's first museum directors, Charles Wilson Peale, and his sons Rembrandt and Rubens, laid the foundation of the modern American museum.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA22916042
• ISBN:
  • 0931201152
• LCCN: 92029830
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Washington, D.C.
• ページ数/冊数: 104 p.
• 大きさ: 22 × 29 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : AM11
  • DC20 : 069/.0973
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Museums -- United States -- History
  • LCSH : Peale family
  • LCSH : Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891