Official Guide to the Kew Museums
Author: Daniel Oliver
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Published: 1863
Total Pages: 96
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Author: Daniel Oliver
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Published: 1863
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel Oliver
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Published: 1861
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Published: 1875
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: British Museum (Natural History). Library
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 558
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Edwards
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-05-19
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 147252733X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe status of photographs in the history of museum collections is a complex one. From its very beginnings the double capacity of photography - as a tool for making a visual record on the one hand and an aesthetic form in its own right on the other - has created tensions about its place in the hierarchy of museum objects. While major collections of 'art' photography have grown in status and visibility, photographs not designated 'art' are often invisible in museums. Yet almost every museum has photographs as part of its ecosystem, gathered as information, corroboration or documentation, shaping the understanding of other classes of objects, and many of these collections remain uncatalogued and their significance unrecognised. This volume presents a series of case studies on the historical collecting and usage of photographs in museums. Using critically informed empirical investigation, it explores substantive and historiographical questions such as what is the historical patterning in the way photographs have been produced, collected and retained by museums? How do categories of the aesthetic and evidential shape the history of collecting photographs? What has been the work of photographs in museums? What does an understanding of photograph collections add to our understanding of collections history more broadly? What are the methodological demands of research on photograph collections? The case studies cover a wide range of museums and collection types, from art galleries to maritime museums, national collections to local history museums, and international perspectives including Cuba, France, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK. Together they offer a fascinating insight into both the history of collections and collecting, and into the practices and poetics of archives across a range of disciplines, including the history of science, museum studies, archaeology and anthropology.
Author: Carin Berkowitz
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2017-07-19
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0822982757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it—an institution of expert knowledge built to inform a lay public—was still very much in formation during this dynamic period. Science Museums in Transition provides a nuanced, comparative study of the diverse places and spaces in which science was displayed at a time when science and spectacle were still deeply intertwined; when leading naturalists, curators, and popular showmen were debating both how to display their knowledge and how and whether they should profit from scientific work; and when ideals of nationalism, class politics, and democracy were permeating the museum's walls. Contributors examine a constellation of people, spaces, display practices, experiences, and politics that worked not only to define the museum, but to shape public science and scientific knowledge. Taken together, the chapters in this volume span the Atlantic, exploring private and public museums, short and long-term exhibitions, and museums built for entertainment, education, and research, and in turn raise a host of important questions, about expertise, and about who speaks for nature and for history.
Author: Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 662
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Diarmid A. Finnegan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-09
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1317051726
DOWNLOAD EBOOK’Global’ knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places. This book focuses on the life-geographies, material practices and varied contributions to knowledge, be they medical or botanical, cartographic or cultural, of actors whose lives crisscrossed an increasingly connected world. Integrating detailed archival research with broader thematic and conceptual reflection, the individual case studies use local specificity to shed light on global structures and processes, revealing the latter to be lived and experienced phenomena rather than abstract historiographical categories. This volume makes an original and compelling contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the global history of knowledge. Given its wide geographic, disciplinary and thematic range this book will appeal to a broad readership including historical geographers and specialists in history of science and medicine, imperial history, museum studies, and book history.
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 712
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alfred Rehder
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 592
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