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Lost in the museum : buried treasures and the stories they tell / Nancy Moses.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moses, Nancy, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museums--Collection management.
- Museums.
- Museums--United States.
- Museums--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia Region.
- Museums--Collection management--United States.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia Region.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2008.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Few beyond the insider realize that museums own millions of objects the public never sees. In Lost in the Museum, Nancy Moses takes the reader behind the Oemployees onlyO doors to uncover the stories buried-along with the objects-in the crypts of museums, historical societies, and archives. Weaving the stories of the object, its original owner, and the often idiosyncratic institution where the object resides, the book reveals the darkest secret of the cultural world: the precarious balance of art, culture, and politics that keep items, for decades, lost in the museum.
- Contents:
- John James Audubon's birds, Academy of Natural Sciences
- Blaschka sea animals, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
- Franklin B. Gowen's bowl, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Pessaries, Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
- Skull of a prehistoric Peruvian child, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
- Ker-Feal, Barnes Foundation
- Plan for the dome of the United States Capitol, Athenaeum of Philadelphia
- John Brown's pike, Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia
- Summer garments of a Tibetan princess, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-158) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-42282-2
- 979-82-16-28551-9
- 0-7591-1070-0
- 0-7591-1362-9
- OCLC:
- 856869429
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