Hidden Treasures : What Museums Can''t or Won''t Show You.

While there are more than 15,000 museums in our country, visitors get to see only about five percent of any institution's collections. Most museums simply don't have room to display everything they've got. However, there are a wide variety of surprising and intriguing reasons that, fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baskas, Harriet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Globe Pequot Press, 2013.
Temas:
Museum exhibits > United States > Miscellanea > Catalogs.
Curiosities and wonders > United States > Catalogs.
Objets exposés > Miscellanées > Catalogues > États-Unis.
Curiosités et merveilles > Catalogues > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Museum Administration & Museology.
REFERENCE > General.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
Curiosities and wonders.
Museum exhibits.
United States.
Catalogs.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:While there are more than 15,000 museums in our country, visitors get to see only about five percent of any institution's collections. Most museums simply don't have room to display everything they've got. However, there are a wide variety of surprising and intriguing reasons that, for example, the Smithsonian Institution doesn't display its collection of condoms, Florida''s Lightner Museum locks up all but one of its shrunken heads, and a world-class stash of Japanese erotica (shunga) art was kept in the Honolulu Museum of Art''s storage until only recently. Each item or co.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (345 pages)
ISBN:9781493001613
1493001612

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