Museum origins : readings in early museum history and philosophy / edited by Hugh H. Genoways and Mary Anne Andrei.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Genoways, Hugh H.

Andrei, Mary Anne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--History.

Museums.

History.

Museums--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

344 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2008]

Summary:

The museum profession began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With the development of institutions displaying natural science, history, and art came debates over the role of these museums in society. This essential anthology collects 52 of the most important writings on museum philosophy dating from this formative period, written by many of the American and European founders of the field. Genoways and Andrei contextualize these pieces with a series of introductions that show how the museum field developed within the social environment of the era. For those interested in museum history and philosophy or cultural history, this is an indispensable resource.

Contents:

Geography / Strabo

Rerum rusticarum libri tres / Marcus Terentius Varro

The life and times of Anthony Wood, antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695, described by himself, collected from his diaries and papers / Andrew Clark

My design in forming this museum / Charles Willson Peale

The Mount Vernon Association / Sara Agnes Pryor

A word about museums / Edwin Lawrence Godkin

The history of the origin and development of museums / H.A. Hagen

An address on the practical value of the American museum / Luigi Palma di Cesnola

Purposes and aims of modern museums / Frederic A. Lucas

The functions of museums / Paul M. Rea

War museums / H. Bolton

Museums and the people / Erwin H. Barbour

State and local historical societies / Reuben Gold Thwaites

On the ideal relations of public libraries, museums, and art gallery to the city

Oliver C. Farrington

The art museum and the public / Mariana Alley Van Rensselaer

English art connoisseurship and collecting / Sir J. C. Robinson

The use and abuse of museums / W. Stanley Jevons

The relationships and responsibilities of museums / G. Brown Goode

Modern museums / William Henry Flower

Museum ideals of purpose and method / Benjamin Ives Gilman

The new museum / John Cotton Dana

The museum conscience / Joseph Grinnell

Museum ethics / L. Earle Rowe

The children's museum as an educator / Anna Billings Gallup

The relation of the museum to the schools / Carolyn M. Rea

If public libraries, why not public museums? / Edward S. Morse

The museum in educational work / Frederick Starr

The museum, the original exponent of visual education / Frank C. Baker

The function of the museum instructor / Elizabeth M. Whitmore

Museums and other classified collections as instruments of education in natural science / Henry Scadding

The place of museums in education / Thomas Greenwood

The museum's part in making of Americans / Laura W.L. Scales

The museum's educational credo / Winifred E. Howe

Museum for the people / Alfred Russel Wallace

The improvements effected in modern museums of Europe and Australia / Gerard Krefft, with extensive quotations from John E. Gray

The dullness of museums / John George Wood

The anthropological exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History / George A. Dorsey

Some principles of museum administration / Franz Boas

Modern exhibitional tendencies of museums of natural history and ethnology designed for public use / Henry L. Ward

On the educational uses of museums / Edward Forbes

The social museum as an instrument of university teaching / Francis G. Peabody

The relation of the art museum to a university / Edward W. Forbes

Training museum workers / Homer R. Dill

Museums and their purpose / N. H. Winchell

Botanical gardens / Nathaniel Lord Britton

The Missouri Botanical Garden / William Trelease

The Arnold Arboretum : what it is and does / Charles Sprague Sargent

Zoological gardens : a critical essay / Theodore Link

The making of a zoological-park masterpiece / William T. Hornaday

Administration of the public aquarium / Charles H. Townsend.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317) and index.

ISBN:

9781598741964

1598741969

9781598741971

1598741977

OCLC:

183262305