Title: Museum masters :
Authors: Alexander, Edward P.
Date: 1983
Publisher: American Association for State and Local History,
Physical description: x, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: A
Contents: Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum -- Charles Willson Peale and his Philadelphia Museum -- Dominique Vivant Denon and the Louvre of Napoleon -- William Jackson Hooker and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew -- Henry Cole and the South Kensington (Victoria and Albert) Museum -- Ann Pamela Cunningham and Washington's Mount Vernon -- Wilhelm Bode and Berlin's Museum Island -- Artur Hazelius and Skansen -- George Brown Goode and the Smithsonian Museums -- Carl Hagenbeck and his Stellingen Tierpark -- Oskar von Miller and the Deutsches Museum -- John Cotton Dana and the Newark Museum.
Subject headings (LCSH): Museum directors--Europe--Biography.; Museum directors--United States--Biography.; Museum techniques.