University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 348 p. From Idols to Antiquity explores the origins and tumultuous development of the National Museum of Mexico and the complicated histories of Mexican antiquities during the first half of the nineteenth century. Following independence from Spain, the National Museum of Mexico was founded in 1825 by presidential decree. Nationhood meant...
Pickering & Chatto, 2007. — 190 p. There has been an upsurge of interest in the British Museum's unrivalled collections and their place in eighteenth-century culture. Concentrating on the explorer and naturalist Joseph Banks (1743–1820), this book explores the early history of collections at the British Museum, the first public national museum to be established. Banks travelled...
University of California Press, 1994. — 449 p. In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a...
New York, Routledge, 2022. 177p. ISBN: 978-1-003-26496-5. This book presents the results of extensive research into the very interesting phenomenon of local museums — kraevedschskyi museums — in Russia’s regions. It outlines how numerous such museums are, how long they have existed, what they display, and how this has changed, or not, from Soviet times up to the present. It...
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. — 512 p. In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained on display for two decades, challenging understandings...
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. — 512 p. In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained on display for two decades, challenging understandings...
USA: Oxford University Press, 2009. — 368 p. ISBN10: 0199554463. ASIN: B007PM4MTG. Language: English. Richly illustrated throughout, including 8 p. of color plates, An Infinity of Things tells the story of the greatest private collection ever made, and the life of the man behind it. American-born Henry Wellcome made his millions as one of the world's first pharmaceutical...
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