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Title The emergence of the modern museum : an anthology of nineteenth-century sources / edited by Jonah Siegel.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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 Moore Stacks  AM41 .E44 2008    Available  ---
Description xix, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-360) and index.
Contents From collection to museum -- Private collections -- Toward a public art collection -- The public in the museum -- Rationalizing the national collections -- Art and the national gallery -- Natural history and the British Museum -- Pedagogy: South Kensington and the provinces -- Reform and the psychology of museum attendance -- From wonders to signs: anthropology and archeology -- Exhibiting India.
Subject Museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Museums.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Museums -- Collection management -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Museums -- Collection management.
Museum exhibits -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Museum exhibits.
Museum attendance -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Museum attendance.
Indexed Term Quelle
Genre/Form Quelle.
Subject Museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Museums -- Collection management -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Museum exhibits -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Museum attendance -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Added Author Siegel, Jonah, 1963-
ISBN 9780195331134 alkaline paper
0195331133 alkaline paper
9780199733576
0199733570