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Covers the transplanting of the curiosity cabinet to the New World, the museum of respectability and of enlightenment. Discusses the age of egalitarianism, and the compromise or synthesis of popular education and professionalism.
The author researched ten museums founded prior to 1870, using primary sources. Those chosen comprised a geographically diverse sample of pre-1870 American museums and covered a range of disciplines, among them art, history, and natural science.