Museums : A History 9781442263635, 9781442263628

This comprehensive history of museums begins with the origins of collecting in prehistory and traces the evolution of mu

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English Pages 327 Year 2016

Museums : A History
9781442263635, 9781442263628

Museums are at the heart of the nation's cultural life, bastions of Britishness in almost every major city and town

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Recent decades have seen migration history and issues increasingly featured in museums. Museums and Migration explores t

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How Victorian house museums anchor and transmit mythic interpretations of the past.

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The last decade has seen the growing popularity and visibility of fashion as a cultural product, including its growing p

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Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed anima

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The book is concerned with how, during four demanding, dislocating and world-changing years, that most Victorian of inst

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Our Indigenous Ancestors complicates the history of the erasure of native cultures and the perceived domination of white

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New perspectives for the research on museum history Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory

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Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of

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The book "Museums of the World" is a travel guide of the different museums of the countries of the world.

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