Museum masters : their museums and their influence / Edward P. Alexander.

Author/Creator:

Alexander, Edward P., 1907-

Publication:

Nashville, Tenn. : American Association for State and Local History, c1983.

Format/Description:

Book
x, 428 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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

Online:

Online access from HathiTrust during COVID-19 — only for students, active faculty, and permanent staff
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/9464438.html

Loading...