The History of Museums

ISBN-13: 9780415148726 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 2144 str.

Routledge; Susan M. Pearce; Susan M. Pearce

Opis

Museums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies. These key texts open the investigation and appreciation of museum history. The author chronicles the founders and early donors to the British Museum. Greenwood and Murray provide informative pictures of the early history of the museum movement. Sir William Flower, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), takes a philsophical approach to the sphere of natural history in relation to museums. Similarly, Acland and Ruskin discuss and explore the relationships of art and architecture to museums.