Edward P. Alexander

The Museum in America

Innovators and Pioneers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Museum in America captures the life stories of thirteen visionary museum leaders who helped transform the 19th century's collection of curios into today's institution of public service and education. In the lively style of Museum Masters, Alexander recounts the stories of pioneers in American history, science, art, and general museums. For anyone interested in the history of the museum, this volume is the place to start.

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Produktdetails

• American Association for State and Local History
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780761989479
• ISBN-10: 0761989471
• Artikelnr.: 21585390

Autorenporträt

By Edward P. Alexander

Inhaltsangabe

chapter 1 Foreword chapter 2 Introduction: Toward a Definition of the
American Museum chapter 3 Henry Fairfield Osborn Develops a Model Natural
History Museum chapter 4 Carl Ethan Akeley Perfects the Habitat Group
Exhibition chapter 5 Henry Watson Kent Standardizes Functions of the Art
Museum chapter 6 Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. Brings Modern Art to the Museum
chapter 7 Reuben Gold Thwaites Makes a Historical Society Reach the People
of a State chapter 8 William Sumner Appelton Preserves Important Sites
Throughout New England chapter 9 Frank Friedman Oppenheimer Uses Visitors
as Part of Museum Experiments chapter 10 Anna Billings Gallup Popularizes
the First Children's Museum chapter 11 John Robert Kinard Expands the
Neighborhood Museum chapter 12 Katherine Coffey Attracts the Community into
a General Museum chapter 13 Charles Sprague Sargent Plants an Outstanding
Botanical Garden chapter 14 William Temple Hornaday Founds a Varied and
Popular Zoo chapter 15 Paul Joseph Sachs Teaches a Pioneering Course in
Museum Studies chapter 16 Epilogue: The American Museum Progresses chapter
17 Index