Science for the nation
Subtitle: perspectives on the history of the Science Museum
By: edited by Peter J.T. Morris.
Contributors: Morris, Peter John Turnbull.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230230095
Subjects: Science Museum (Great Britain) -- History; Science and state -- Great Britain -- London -- History
Description: "A engaging history of the British Science Museum, produced to mark the centenary of its separation from the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1909. Rather than simply a narrative history, it uses the key themes of the Science Museums evolution to explore major issues and tensions common to the development of all science and technology museums"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface; title: M.Jackson; title: Introduction; title: P.Morris; title: Infected by the Bacillus of Science: The Explosion of South Kensington; title: R.Bud; title: The Early Years: The Science Museum at War and Peace; title: T.Scheinfeldt; title: The Science Museum and the Second World War; title: T.Parsons III; title: Ambition and Anxiety: The Science Museum, 1950s to 1983; title: S.Anthony; title: Parallax Error? A Participants Account of the Science Museum, c.1980-c.2000; title: T.Boon; title: Waves of Change: How The Science Museums Library Rose, Fell and Rose Again; title: N.Wyatt; title: A Worthy and Suitable House Science Museum Buildings and the Temporality of Space; title: D.Rooney; title: Exhibiting Science: Changing Conceptions of Science Museum Display; title: A.Nahum; title: It's Not Just a 'Children's Playground.' The Influence of Children on the Development of the Science Museum; title: A.Bunney; title: An Effective Organ of Public Enlightenment: The Role of Temporary Exhibitions in the Science Museum; title: P.Morris; title: Collecting for the Science Museum: Constructing the Collections, the Culture and the Institution; title: R.Bud; title: Lifting the Stone: Housing the Collections; title: J.Liffen; title: The International Context and the Context of Internationalism; title: T.Scheinfeldt; title: Creating the Most Admired Museum in the World in the Twentieth-First Century; title: C.Rapley; title: A short essay on the Science Museum in the 21st Century.