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"This comprehensive history of museums begins with the origins of collecting in prehistory and traces the evolution of museums from grave goods to treasure troves, from the Alexandrian Temple of the Muses to the Renaissance cabinets of curiosities, and onto the diverse array of modern instituti...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simmons, John E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Temas:
Museums > History.
Museum techniques > History.
Musées > Histoire.
Muséologie > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Museum Administration & Museology.
REFERENCE > General.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
Museum techniques
Museums
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What is a collection? what is a museum?
  • Hoards and tombs
  • collections in the ancient world (to 700 BCE)
  • The temple of the muses
  • the conjunction of objects and knowledge (classical antiquity, 700 BCE to CE 400)
  • The power of objects
  • medieval collections (400 to 1400)
  • Of cabinets and kings
  • Renaissance collections (1400 to 1600)
  • The museum enlightened
  • 1600 to 1800
  • Emergence of the modern museum
  • 1800 to 1900
  • Museums in a world gone awry
  • 1900 to 1970
  • Learning to read objects (again)
  • the post-postmodern museum.

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