Download or read book Studies of the Museums and Kindred Institutions of New York City Albany Buffalo and Chicago written by Adolf Bernhard Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Studies of the Museums and Kindred Institutions of New York City Albany Buffalo and Chicago written by Adolf Bernhard Meyer 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: A comprehensive survey of the history, mission, and collections of some of America's most prominent museums and cultural institutions, with illuminating comparisons to their European counterparts. 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 Studies of Te Museums and Kindred Institutions of New York City Albany Buffalo and Chicago written by A. B. Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Studies of the Museums and Kindred Institutions of New York City Albany Buffalo and Chicago written by Adolf Bernhard Meyer and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Download or read book Studies of the Museums and Kindred Institutions of New York City Albany Buffalo and Chicago with Notes on Some European Institutions written by Adolf Bernhard Meyer and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...distinguished from a circulating library from which the books may be taken out. In the same year the erection of a temporary building on the site of the testator's residence in the northern part of the city was taken in hand, some rooms were rented for immediate use, and there was appointed a librarian, W. F. Poole, who for fourteen years had occupied a similar position in the public library of Chicago and was one of the leading librarians of America (among other things he founded in 1853 the Index to Periodical Literature which is still continued), and two other employees. Forty thousand dollars was appropriated for books and pamphlets. In the spring of 1888 some 14,000 volumes were installed in the provisional building, and the library was opened to the public. At the beginning of 1890 a removal was made to another provisional building not far from the first one and near the site on which it was intended to build the final structure. This was a one-storied, fireproof a W. L. Newberry, born in 1804; his ancestors came from England to America in 1630. He lived subsequent to 1833 as a banker in Chicago, possessed a fine library, belonged among others to the Chicago Board of Education, and was president of the Historical Society. From 1857, because of his health, he spent every winter in southern France. Not only is he renowned for his own magnificent benefaction which keeps his memory permanently green, but his example induced the foundation of the John Crerar Library in another part of the city (see p. 451). &See The Newberry Library, Chicago. Certificate of Incorporation and Incorporation Act, p. 13 (27 pp.). c Already in 1894 it had increased to $6,000,000, and as a great portion of it is invested in houses and lots it is...

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Download or read book Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U S National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Assistant Director and of the Curators of the U S National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer written by Thomas Adam and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer" presents a collection of compelling case studies in the areas of social reform, museums, philanthropy, football, nonviolent resistance and holiday rituals such as Christmas that demonstrate key mechanisms of intercultural transfers. Each chapter provides the application of the intercultural transfer studies paradigm to a specific and distinct historical phenomenon. The chapters not only illustrate the presence or even the depth and frequency of intercultural transfer, but also reveal specific aspects of the intercultural transfer of phenomena, the role of agents of intercultural transfer and the transformations of ideas transferred between cultures thereby contributing to our understanding of the mechanisms of intercultural transfers.

Download or read book The Museum Is Open written by Andrea Meyer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museumswissenschaft, Museumsanalyse, Museumsgeschichte, Museumstheorien ... – neben Bezeichnungen wie Museologie und Museumskunde haben in den letzten Jahren Komposita Verwendung gefunden, die vor allem eines vor Augen führen: das zunehmende wissenschaftliche Interesse an Museen. Bis heute kehrt dabei das Argument stets wieder, dass die Institution maßgeblicher Schauplatz nationaler Identitätsbildung gewesen sei. Der Band rückt hingegen das Museum als Produkt grenzüberschreitender Austausch- und Transferprozesse von circa 1750 bis 1940 in den Mittelpunkt.

Download or read book Life on Display written by Karen A. Rader and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums’ shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle profound changes in these exhibitions—and the institutions that housed them—between 1910 and 1990, ultimately offering new perspectives on the history of museums, science, and science education. Rader and Cain explain why science and natural history museums began to welcome new audiences between the 1900s and the 1920s and chronicle the turmoil that resulted from the introduction of new kinds of biological displays. They describe how these displays of life changed dramatically once again in the 1930s and 1940s, as museums negotiated changing, often conflicting interests of scientists, educators, and visitors. The authors then reveal how museum staffs, facing intense public and scientific scrutiny, experimented with wildly different definitions of life science and life science education from the 1950s through the 1980s. The book concludes with a discussion of the influence that corporate sponsorship and blockbuster economics wielded over science and natural history museums in the century’s last decades. A vivid, entertaining study of the ways science and natural history museums shaped and were shaped by understandings of science and public education in the twentieth-century United States, Life on Display will appeal to historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture, as well as museum practitioners and general readers.

Download or read book From Knowledge to Narrative written by Lisa C. Roberts and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 1997-06-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Knowledge to Narrative shows that museum educators—professionals responsible for making collections intelligble to viewers—have become central figures in shaping exhibits. Challenging the traditional, scholarly presentation of objects, educators argue that, rather than transmitting knowledge, museums' displays should construct narratives that are determined as much by what is meaningful to visitors as by what curators intend. Lisa C. Roberts discusses museum education in relation to entertainment, as a tool of empowerment, as a shaper of experience, and as an ethical responsibility. The book argues for an expanded role for museum education based less on explaining objects than on interpreting narratives.

Download or read book The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture written by Jean M. Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period (2900-2350 BC) of Sumer, a region corresponding to present-day southern Iraq. Featured almost exclusively in temple complexes, some 550 Early Dynastic stone statues of human figures carved in an abstract style have survived. Chronicling the intellectual history of ancient Near Eastern art history and archaeology at the intersection of sculpture and aesthetics, this book argues that the early modern reception of Sumer still influences ideas about these sculptures. Engaging also with the archaeology of the Early Dynastic temple, the book ultimately considers what a stone statue of a human figure has signified, both in modern times and in antiquity.