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.
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION CHAPTER II. THE RELATION OR THE STATE TO MUSUEM CHAPTER III. THE PLACE. OF MUSEUMS IN EDUCATION CHAPTER. IV. EARLY ENGLISH MUSEUMS CHAPTER V. RATE SUPPORTED MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES CHAPTER VI. GENERAL MUSEUMS SUPPOBTBD BY SUBSCRIPTIONS, DONATIONS, AND AUSM. PRIVATE MUSEUMS CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. WHAT PRIVATE MUNIFICENCE HAS DONE FOR MUSEUMS CHAPTER X. POPULARISING MUSEUMS, AND THE IDEAL IN MUSEUM WORK CHAPTER XI. THE SUNDAY OPENING OF MUSEUMS CHAPTER XII. MUSEUM LECTURES CHAPTER XIII. THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND ITS PLACE IN THE NATIONAL NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM CHAPTER .XIV. THE NATIONAL GALLERY CHAPTER XV. SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM AND ITS WORK 1 AND THE BETHNAL GREEN MUSEUM CHAPTER XVI. MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES IN LONDON CHAPTER XVII. THE SCIENCE AND ART MUSEUMS IN DUBLIN AND EDINBURGH CHAPTER, XVIII. THE SCOTCH MUSEUMS CHAPTER XIX. THE CLASSIFICATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF OBJECTS IN MUSEUMS CHAPTER XX. COMMERCIAL MUSEUMS CHAPTER XXI. MUSEUMS IN AMERICA CHAPTER XXII. THE MUSEUMS OF GERMANY CHAPTER XXIII. THE FRENCH MUSEUMS CHAPTER XXIV. THE MUSEUMS OF BELGIUM, HOLLAND, AND DENMARK CHAPTER XXV. THE ITALIAN MUSEUM; XIV CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXVI. ORIENTAL MUSEUMS CHAPTER XXVII. SOME NOTES ON THE MANAGEMENT OF AN DART GALLERIES CHAPTER XXVIII. STATISTICS RELATING TO MUSEUMS MUSEUM MEMORANDA APPENDICES
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Introduction by Susan M. Pearce, University of Leicester, Author, Thomas Greenwood
