Museums and American intellectual life, 1876-1926
by Steven Conn
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Conn's study includes familiar places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Academy of Natural Sciences, but he also draws attention to forgotten ones, like the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, once the repository for objects from many turn-of-the-century world's fairs.
What emerges from Conn's analysis is that museums of all kinds shared a belief that knowledge resided in the objects themselves. Using what Conn has termed "object-based epistemology," museums of the late nineteenth century were on the cutting edge of American intellectual life. By the first quarter of the twentieth century, however, museums had largely been replaced by research-oriented universities as places where new knowledge was produced.
According to Conn, not only did this mean a change in the way knowledge was conceived, but also, and perhaps more importantly, who would have access to it.
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Museums, Intellectual life, History, Historical museums, Vida intelectual, Historia, Histoire, Musées, Vie intellectuelle, 02.01 history of science and culture, Geistesleben, Museum, Musea, Intellectuele vorming, Museums, history, United states, intellectual life, United states, history, 1865-1898, United states, history, 1919-1933Places
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Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926
2000, University of Chicago Press
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Museums and American intellectual life, 1876-1926
1998, The University of Chicago Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-293) and index.
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