Details

Subjects:

Museum techniques.
Museum directors -- Europe -- Biography.
Museum directors -- United States -- Biography.

Contents:

Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum
Charles Willson Peale and his Philadelphia Museum
Dominique Vivant Denon and the Louvre of Napoleon
William Jackson Hooker and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew
Henry Cole and the South Kensington (Victoria and Albert) Museum
Ann Pamela Cunningham and Washington's Mount Vernon
Wilhelm Bode and Berlin's Museum Island
Artur Hazelius and Skansen
George Brown Goode and the Smithsonian Museums
Carl Hagenbeck and his Stellingen Tierpark
Oskar von Miller and the Deutsches Museum
John Cotton Dana and the Newark Museum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0910050686

OCLC:

9464438