Curators
Subtitle: behind the scenes of natural history museums
By: Lance Grande
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780226192758
Subjects: Field Museum of Natural History; Natural history museum curators; Natural history museums; Biologists; Paleontologists; Curatorship; Biography
Description: xvi, 412 pages : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: curators of natural history and human culture; title: Moving toward the life of a curator; title: Beginning a curatorial career; title: Staking out a field site in Wyoming; title: Mexico and the hotel NSF; title: Radioactive rayfins, the fish rodeo, and developing a global research program; title: A dino named Sue; title: Adventures of my curatorial colleagues from the field; title: The spirit of K-P Schmidt and the hazards of herpetology; title: Executive management; title: Exhibition and the Hall of Gems; title: Grave concerns; title: Hunting; title: and conserving; title: lions; title: Saving the planet's ecosystems; title: Where do we go from here?