Lost in the museum
Subtitle: buried treasures and the stories they tell
By: Nancy Moses
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780759110700; 9780759110694
Subjects: Museums -- Collection management; Museums -- Collection management -- United States; Museums -- United States; Museums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Region
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-158) and index
Table of contents: title: John James Audubon's birds, Academy of Natural Sciences; title: Blaschka sea animals, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh; title: Franklin B. Gowen's bowl, Historical Society of Pennsylvania; title: Pessaries, Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; title: Skull of a prehistoric Peruvian child, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History; title: Ker-Feal, Barnes Foundation; title: Plan for the dome of the United States Capitol, Athenaeum of Philadelphia; title: John Brown's pike, Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia; title: Summer garments of a Tibetan princess, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture