Museum masters
Subtitle: their museums and their influence
By: Edward P. Alexander.
Publisher: American Association for State and Local History
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Museum techniques; Museum directors -- Europe -- Biography; Museum directors -- United States -- Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum; title: Charles Willson Peale and his Philadelphia Museum; title: Dominique Vivant Denon and the Louvre of Napoleon; title: William Jackson Hooker and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew; title: Henry Cole and the South Kensington (Victoria and Albert) Museum; title: Ann Pamela Cunningham and Washington's Mount Vernon; title: Wilhelm Bode and Berlin's Museum Island; title: Artur Hazelius and Skansen; title: George Brown Goode and the Smithsonian Museums; title: Carl Hagenbeck and his Stellingen Tierpark; title: Oskar von Miller and the Deutsches Museum; title: John Cotton Dana and the Newark Museum.