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1 online resource (345 pages) |
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text file |
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Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Mounted (Non-Radioactive) Walrus Skull; Psychiana Collection and Nude Mozert Painting; Gold Jewelry; Richard Nixon Arm Wrestling George McGovern; Lifelike Sculptures; A Slice of 150-Year-Old Wedding Cake; Livingstone's Medicine Chest; Purygin's Park of Recreation; Saltshakers and Shrunken Heads; Shunga (Japanese Erotica); Malvina Hoffman Sculptures; Matchbox Flea Diorama; Half-Heads Preserved in Jars; Ball Jars Collection; Abraham Lincoln Pole Banner; Ghost Dance Shirt; In Cold Blood Tombstones and Gallows. |
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Creepy Things and Live AmmunitionSpiro T. Agnew Collection; Masonic Urns; Lifelike Glass Sea Life and Historically Significant Insects; Drunken Monkeys Diorama and Ford Model T Violin; Invisible Art; Truman's Portrait on the Head of a Pin; Human-Skin Wallets; Radiendocrinator; Hidden Clues in a Music Box; Our Lady Photo; Glass Coffin; Controversial Firefighter Lithographs; The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass; Katharine Wright's Knickers; No Room for the Pig; "Old Sparky" Chair Too Uncomfortable to Exhibit; John Dillinger's Gun; Battery Notes too Hazardous to Handle; Poisonous Art. |
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Warhol Time CapsulesWreath from Andrew Johnson's Grave; John Murrell's Mummified Thumb; Pottery Sherds; Coded Message in a Bottle; Smallpox Scab and Redacted Love Letter; TSA 9/11 Artifacts; Moon Boots and Space Suits; Condoms and Marie Curie's Radium; Repatriated Wampum; Soap Man; Stolen Art; Barefoot Bandit Evidence; Rock and Roll Artifacts; Swastika and KKK Quilts; Harley-Davidson Beer, Wine Coolers, and Cigarettes; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author. |
| Summary |
While there are more than 15,000 museums in our country, visitors get to see only about five percent of any institution's collections. Most museums simply don't have room to display everything they've got. However, there are a wide variety of surprising and intriguing reasons that, for example, the Smithsonian Institution doesn't display its collection of condoms, Florida''s Lightner Museum locks up all but one of its shrunken heads, and a world-class stash of Japanese erotica (shunga) art was kept in the Honolulu Museum of Art''s storage until only recently. Each item or co. |
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Museum exhibits -- United States -- Miscellanea -- Catalogs.
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Museum exhibits. |
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United States. |
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Catalogs.
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Curiosities and wonders -- United States -- Catalogs.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology. |
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REFERENCE -- General. |
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Curiosities and wonders. |
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TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest. |
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Electronic books.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Catalogs.
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Print version: Baskas, Harriet. Hidden Treasures : What Museums Can''t or Won''t Show You. Lanham : Globe Pequot Press, ©2013 9780762780471 |
| ISBN |
9781493001613 (electronic book) |
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1493001612 (electronic book) |
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