Download or read book A Memorial of George Brown Goode written by George Brown Goode and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Memorial of George Brown Goode written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Memorial of George Brown Goode Together with a Selection of His Papers on Museums and on the History of Science in America written by George Brown Goode and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Memorial of George Brown Goode Together with a Selection of His Papers on Museums and on the History of Science in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Memorial of George Brown Goode written by United States National Museum and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book honors the life and work of George Brown Goode, a prominent American biologist and museum curator who made important contributions to the study of fisheries, mollusks, and other natural phenomena. It collects some of his most important papers and explores the role of museums and scientific institutions in the development of American science. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Memorial of George Brown Goode written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by Lancaster (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keeping Their Marbles written by Tiffany Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft. Now the countries from which these treasures came would like them back. The Greek demand for the return of the Elgin Marbles is the tip of an iceberg that includes claims for the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria, sculpture from Turkey, scrolls and porcelain taken from the Chinese Summer Palace, textiles from Peru, the bust of Nefertiti, Native American sacred objects, and Aboriginal human remains. In Keeping Their Marbles, Tiffany Jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects. She investigates why repatriation claims have soared in recent decades and demonstrates how it is the guilt and insecurity of the museums themselves that have stoked the demands for return. Contrary to the arguments of campaigners, she shows that sending artefacts back will not achieve the desired social change nor repair the wounds of history. Instead, this ground-breaking book makes the case for museums as centres of knowledge, demonstrating that no object has a single home, and no one culture owns culture.
Download or read book Annual Report written by Lancaster (Mass.). Town Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Smithsonian Collection written by Helena E. Wright and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015 Winner, Ewell Newman Award of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, 2016 In 1849 the Smithsonian purchased the Marsh Collection of European engravings. Not only the first collection of any kind to be acquired by the new Institution, it was also the first public print collection in the nation, and it presented an important symbol of cultural authority. The prints formed part of the library of Vermont Congressman George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882), a member of the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents. The uncertainty of the Smithsonian's mission in the early years complicated its motivation for purchasing the collection, especially given Marsh’s position as a Regent in financial difficulty. After a serious fire in 1865, portions of the collection were deposited at the Library of Congress and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Efforts to reclaim it began in the 1880s, as a new generation of Smithsonian staff expanded the National Museum, but they achieved only mixed success. Through the story of the Marsh Collection, the book explores the cultural values attributed to prints in the 19th century, including their prominent role in expositions and their influence on visual culture at a time when collecting styles were moving from an individual’s private contemplation of artworks to wider public venues of exposition in museums and reception by multiple audiences. The history of this first Smithsonian collection enlivens an important stage in the development of American cultural identity and in the formation of the Smithsonian as a national institution.
Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Companion to Museum Studies written by Sharon Macdonald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. Collects first-rate original essays by leading figures from a range of disciplines and theoretical stances, including anthropology, art history, history, literature, sociology, cultural studies, and museum studies Examines the complexity of the museum from cultural, political, curatorial, historical and representational perspectives Covers traditional subjects, such as space, display, buildings, objects and collecting, and more contemporary challenges such as visiting, commerce, community and experimental exhibition forms
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Invention of Race written by Nicolas Bancel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial exhibitions and ethnic shows. A deep epistemological change took place in Europe in this domain toward the end of the eighteenth century, producing new scientific representations of race and thereby triggering a radical transformation in the visual economy relating to race and racial representation and its inscription in the body. These practices would play defining roles in shaping public consciousness and the representation of “otherness” in modern societies. The Invention of Race provides contextualization that is often lacking in contemporary discussions on diversity, multiculturalism and race.
Download or read book Museum Studies written by Bettina Messias Carbonell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts presents a comprehensive collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture and philosophy. Unique in its deep range of historical sources and by its inclusion of primary texts by museum makers Places current praxis and theory in its broader and deeper historical context with the collection of primary and secondary sources spanning more than 200 years Features the latest developments in museum scholarship concerning issues of inclusion and exclusion, repatriation, indigenous models of collection and display, museums in an age of globalization, visitor studies and interactive technologies Includes a new section on relationships, interactions, and responsibilities Offers an updated bibliography and list of resources devoted to museum studies that makes the volume an authoritative guide on the subject New entries by Victoria E. M. Cain, Neil G.W. Curtis, Catherine Ingraham, Gwyneira Isaac, Robert R. Janes, Sean Kingston, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Sharon J. Macdonald, Saloni Mathur, Gerald McMaster, Sidney Moko Mead, Donald Preziosi, Karen A. Rader, Richard Sandell, Roger I. Simon, Crain Soudien, Paul Tapsell, Stephen E. Weil, Paul Williams, and Andrea Witcomb
Download or read book The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society written by Manchester Geographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal written by Manchester Geographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
