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The History of Museums, Multiple-component retail product Book

The History of Museums Multiple-component retail product

Edited by Susan Pearce

Multiple-component retail product

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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.

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