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An edition of Museum origins (2008)

Museum origins

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Left Coast Press
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English
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344

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Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Museum Origins
Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Museum Origins
Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Museum Origins
Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Museum origins: readings in early museum history and philosophy
2008, Left Coast Press
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Table of Contents

Geography / Strabo
Rerum rusticarum libri tres / Marcus Terentius Varro
The life and times of Anthony Wood, antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695, described by himself, collected from his diaries and papers / Andrew Clark
My design in forming this museum / Charles Willson Peale
The Mount Vernon Association / Sara Agnes Pryor
A word about museums / Edwin Lawrence Godkin
The history of the origin and development of museums / H.A. Hagen
An address on the practical value of the American museum / Luigi Palma di Cesnola
Purposes and aims of modern museums / Frederic A. Lucas
The functions of museums / Paul M. Rea
War museums / H. Bolton
Museums and the people / Erwin H. Barbour
State and local historical societies / Reuben Gold Thwaites
On the ideal relations of public libraries, museums, and art gallery to the city
Oliver C. Farrington
The art museum and the public / Mariana Alley Van Rensselaer
English art connoisseurship and collecting / Sir J. C. Robinson
The use and abuse of museums / W. Stanley Jevons
The relationships and responsibilities of museums / G. Brown Goode
Modern museums / William Henry Flower
Museum ideals of purpose and method / Benjamin Ives Gilman
The new museum / John Cotton Dana
The museum conscience / Joseph Grinnell
Museum ethics / L. Earle Rowe
The children's museum as an educator / Anna Billings Gallup
The relation of the museum to the schools / Carolyn M. Rea
If public libraries, why not public museums? / Edward S. Morse
The museum in educational work / Frederick Starr
The museum, the original exponent of visual education / Frank C. Baker
The function of the museum instructor / Elizabeth M. Whitmore
Museums and other classified collections as instruments of education in natural science / Henry Scadding
The place of museums in education / Thomas Greenwood
The museum's part in making of Americans / Laura W.L. Scales
The museum's educational credo / Winifred E. Howe
Museum for the people / Alfred Russel Wallace
The improvements effected in modern museums of Europe and Australia / Gerard Krefft, with quotations from John E. Gray
The dullness of museums / John George Wood
The anthropological exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History / George A. Dorsey
Some principles of museum administration / Franz Boas
Modern exhibitional tendencies of museums of natural history and ethnology designed for public use / Henry L. Ward
On the educational uses of museums / Edward Forbes
The social museum as an instrument of university teaching / Francis G. Peabody
The relation of the art museum to the university / Edward W. Forbes
Training museum workers / Homer R. Dill
Museums and their purpose / N. H. Winchell
Botanical gardens / Nathaniel Lord Britton
The Missouri Botanical Garden / William Trelease
The Arnold Arboretum : what it is and does / Charles Sprague Sargent
Zoological gardens : a critical essay / Theodore Link
The making of a zoological-park masterpiece / William T. Hornaday
Administration of the public aquarium / Charles H. Townsend.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Walnut Creek, Calif

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
069.09
Library of Congress
AM7 .M8726 2008, AM7.M8726 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
344

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16522706M
Internet Archive
museumoriginsrea0000unse
ISBN 13
9781598741964, 9781598741971
LCCN
2008005848
OCLC/WorldCat
183262305
Goodreads
7069872
3375957

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