With essays by Charles Saumarez Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Paul Greenhalgh, Colin Sorensen, Nick Merriman, Stephen Bann, Philip Wright, Norman Palmer and Peter Vergo. "A lively and controversial symposium ... thought-provoking"--The Sunday Times (Paperbacks of the Year, 1989)"Th…
"Drawing on case studies from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, covering Europe and beyond, Collector's Knowledge: What is Kept, What is Discarded investigates how knowledge was acquired, organized and sometimes lost. It examines collections of texts and objects - libra…
Collectors' Knowledge: What is Kept, What is Discarded investigates how organized knowledge was acquired, shaped, and lost. Case studies examine collections of texts and objects from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries-from libraries to royal and ducal treasures. - Collect…
The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it…
The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it…
by Zwijnenberg, Robert, Knoeff, Rina
fromHistory of medicine in context
Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections : human and animal preparations, wax - and other models, as well as drawings, photographs, documents and archives relating to them. This volume explores the changing status of anatomical collection…
In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's "Museums in Motion" was hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the history of museums since the eighteenth century with a detailed examination of the function of museums and museum workers in modern society, it serv…
