Screen LibraryScience museums in transition : cultures of display in nineteenth-century Britain and America /
The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it--an institution of e...
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University of Pittsburgh Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Pittsburgh, PA : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Science and culture in the nineteenth century
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| Summary: |
The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it--an institution of expert knowledge built to inform a lay public--was still very much in formation during this dynamic period. Science Museums in Transition provides a nuanced, comparative study of the diverse places and spaces in which science was displayed at a time when science and spectacle were still deeply inte |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-351) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780822944751 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0822944758 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | Q105 |
| CLC: |
G269.712.9 G269.561.9 |
| Call Number: | G269.561.9/S416-1 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Sites of miscellaneity. Science in Regent's Park : the Colosseum / The permissive precincts of Barnum's and Goodrich's museums of miscellaneity : lessons in knowing nature for new learners / Display and expertise. This post mortem palace : accommodating the Hunterian Museum / Sight and sites : the National Repository and the politics of seeing in early nineteenth-century England / The scientist-showman. A lectur |