Museums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies. This selected group of key texts opens the investigation and appreciation of museum history. Edward Edwards, chief pioneer of municipal public libraries, chronicles the founders and early donors to the British Museum. Greenwood and Murray provide informative pictures of the early history of the museum movement. Sir William Flower, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), takes a pioneering philosophical approach to the sphere of natural history in relation to museums. Similarly, Acland and Ruskin discuss and explore the relationships of art and architecture to museums.
Volume 1 Lives of the Founders of the British Museum; with Notices of its Chief Augmenters and other Benefactors 1570-1870 (1870) Edward. First book, early collectors the gatherers of the foundation collections chapter one introduction chapter 2 the founder of the Cottonian library Chapter 3 the chief collector an the argument eighters of the old royal and Public Library at Saint James, Chapter 4 The collector of the Arundelian Museum Chapter 5 The Collector of the Harleian Museum Chapter 6 The Founders of the Sloane Museum, Second Book, The Organisers and Early Augmenters. Chapter 1 Introductory Chapter 1 Introductory Chapter 2 A Group of Classical Archaeologists and Explorers.
Biography
Introduction by Susan M. Pearce, Univeristy of Leicester, Author, Edward Edwards.
