Museum Origins (eBook, ePUB)

Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy
Redaktion: Genoways, Hugh H; Andrei, Mary Anne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This anthology collects 50 of the most important writings on museum philosophy dating from the formative period of the profession, written by many of the American and European founders of the field, with contextualizing introductions by the editors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315423999
• Artikelnr.: 49364373

Autorenporträt

Hugh H. Genowaysand, Mary Anne Andrei

Inhaltsangabe

Museum Origins; Chapter 1 Geography
Strabo; Chapter 2 Rerum Rusticarum Libri Tres
Marcus TerentiusVarro; Chapter 3 The Life and Times of Anthony Wood
Antiquary
of Oxford
1632-1695
Described by Himself
Collected from his Diaries and Other Papers
AndrewClark; Chapter 4 My Design in Forming this Museum
CharlesWillson Peale; Chapter 5 The Mount Vernon Association
SaraAgnes
Rice]
Pryor
RogerA. PryorMrs.; Chapter 6 A Word About Museums
EdwinLawrence Godkin; Chapter 7 The History of the Origin and Development of Museums
H[ermann]A[ugust] Hagen; Museum Philosophy; Chapter 8 An Address on the Practical Value of the American Museum
LuigiPalma di Cesnola; Chapter 9 Purposes and Aims of Modern Museums
FredericA. Lucas; Chapter 10 The Functions of Museums
PaulM. Rea; Chapter 11 War Museums
H[erbert]Bolton; Chapter 12 Museums and the People
ErwinH. Barbour; Chapter 13 State and Local Historical Societies
ReubenGold Thwaites; Chapter 14 On the Ideal Relations of Public Libraries
Museums
and Art Gallery to the City
OliverC. Farrington; Chapter 15 The Art Museum and the Public
Mariana Alley[Griswold]
VanRensselaer
SchuylerVan RensselaerMrs.; Chapter 16 English Art Connoisseurship and Collecting
SirJ[ohn]
C[harles]Robinson; The New Museum; Chapter 17 The Use and Abuse of Museums
W. StanleyJevons; Chapter 18 The Relationships and Responsibilities of Museums
G[eorge]Brown Goode; Chapter 19 Modern Museums: Presidential Address to the Museums Association at the Meeting in London
3rd July 1893
WilliamHenry Flower; Chapter 20 Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method
BenjaminIves Gilman; Chapter 21 The New Museum
JohnCotton Dana; Chapter 22 The Museum Conscience
JosephGrinnell; Chapter 23 Museum Ethics
L. EarleRowe; Museum Education; Chapter 24 The Children's Museum as an Educator
AnnaBillings Gallup; Chapter 25 The Relation of the Museum to the Schools
Carolyn[Morse] Rea
PaulM. ReaMrs.; Chapter 26 If Public Libraries
Why Not Public Museums?
EdwardS. Morse; Chapter 27 The Museum in Educational Work
FrederickStarr; Chapter 28 The Museum
the Original Exponent of Visual Education
FrankC. Baker; Chapter 29 The Function of the Museum Instructor
ElizabethM[anning Gardiner] Whitmore; Chapter 30 Museums and Other Classified Collections as Instruments of Education in Natural Science
HenryScadding; Chapter 31 The Place of Museums in Education
ThomasGreenwood; Chapter 32 The Museum's Part in the Making of Americans
Laura W[oolsey]L[ord] Scales; Chapter 33 The Museum's Educational Credo
WinifredE. Howe; Museum Exhibition; Chapter 34 Museum for the People
AlfredRussel Wallace; Chapter 35 The Improvements Effected in Modern Museums of Europe and Australia
[Johann Ludwig]Gerard Krefft
John EdwardGray; Chapter 36 The Dulness of Museums
JohnGeorge Wood; Chapter 37 The Anthropological Exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History
GeorgeA. Dorsey; Chapter 38 Some Principles of Museum Administration
FranzBoas; Chapter 39 Modern Exhibitional Tendencies of Museums of Natural History and Ethnology Designed for Public Use
HenryL. Ward; Museums and Universities; Chapter 40 On the Educational Uses of Museums
EdwardForbes; Chapter 41 The Social Museum as an Instrument of University Teaching
FrancisG. Peabody; Chapter 42 The Relation of the Art Museum to a University
EdwardW. Forbes; Chapter 43 Training Museum Workers
HomerR. Dill; Chapter 44 Museums and Their Purpose
N[ewton]H. Winchell; Philosophy of Museums with Living Collections; Chapter 45 Botanical Gardens
NathanielLord Britton; Chapter 46 The Missouri Botanical Garden
WilliamTrelease; Chapter 47 The Arnold Arboretum: What it is and Does
CharlesSprague Sargent; Chapter 48 Zoological Gardens
A Critical Essay
TheodoreLink; Chapter 49 The Making of A Zoological-Park Masterpiece
WilliamT. Hornaday; Chapter 50 Administration of the Public Aquarium
CharlesH. Townsend;