Museum origins
Subtitle: readings in early museum history and philosophy
By: edited by Hugh H. Genoways and Mary Anne Andrei.
Contributors: Genoways, Hugh H.; Andrei, Mary Anne.
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781598741964; 9781598741971
Subjects: Museums -- History; Museums -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Geography / Strabo; title: Rerum rusticarum libri tres / Marcus Terentius Varro; title: The life and times of Anthony Wood, antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695, described by himself, collected from his diaries and papers / Andrew Clark; title: My design in forming this museum / Charles Willson Peale; title: The Mount Vernon Association / Sara Agnes Pryor; title: A word about museums / Edwin Lawrence Godkin; title: The history of the origin and development of museums / H.A. Hagen; title: An address on the practical value of the American museum / Luigi Palma di Cesnola; title: Purposes and aims of modern museums / Frederic A. Lucas; title: The functions of museums / Paul M. Rea; title: War museums / H. Bolton; title: Museums and the people / Erwin H. Barbour; title: State and local historical societies / Reuben Gold Thwaites; title: On the ideal relations of public libraries, museums, and art gallery to the city; title: Oliver C. Farrington; title: The art museum and the public / Mariana Alley Van Rensselaer; title: English art connoisseurship and collecting / Sir J. C. Robinson; title: The use and abuse of museums / W. Stanley Jevons; title: The relationships and responsibilities of museums / G. Brown Goode; title: Modern museums / William Henry Flower; title: Museum ideals of purpose and method / Benjamin Ives Gilman; title: The new museum / John Cotton Dana; title: The museum conscience / Joseph Grinnell; title: Museum ethics / L. Earle Rowe; title: The children's museum as an educator / Anna Billings Gallup; title: The relation of the museum to the schools / Carolyn M. Rea; title: If public libraries, why not public museums? / Edward S. Morse; title: The museum in educational work / Frederick Starr; title: The museum, the original exponent of visual education / Frank C. Baker; title: The function of the museum instructor / Elizabeth M. Whitmore; title: Museums and other classified collections as instruments of education in natural science / Henry Scadding; title: The place of museums in education / Thomas Greenwood; title: The museum's part in making of Americans / Laura W.L. Scales; title: The museum's educational credo / Winifred E. Howe; title: Museum for the people / Alfred Russel Wallace; title: The improvements effected in modern museums of Europe and Australia / Gerard Krefft, with quotations from John E. Gray; title: The dullness of museums / John George Wood; title: The anthropological exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History / George A. Dorsey; title: Some principles of museum administration / Franz Boas; title: Modern exhibitional tendencies of museums of natural history and ethnology designed for public use / Henry L. Ward; title: On the educational uses of museums / Edward Forbes; title: The social museum as an instrument of university teaching / Francis G. Peabody; title: The relation of the art museum to the university / Edward W. Forbes; title: Training museum workers / Homer R. Dill; title: Museums and their purpose / N. H. Winchell; title: Botanical gardens / Nathaniel Lord Britton; title: The Missouri Botanical Garden / William Trelease; title: The Arnold Arboretum : what it is and does / Charles Sprague Sargent; title: Zoological gardens : a critical essay / Theodore Link; title: The making of a zoological-park masterpiece / William T. Hornaday; title: Administration of the public aquarium / Charles H. Townsend.