Museums in Britain - A History

Informationen zum Autor Christine Garwood is an author and researcher specialising in nineteenth-century social history and the history of science. She has published on topics as diverse as Victorian environmentalism, quack medicine, popular astronomy and the history of ideas. Klappentext Museums are at the heart of the nation's cultural life, bastions of Britishness in almost every major city and town. Together they detail myriad aspects of our heritage: from lawnmowers to cuckoo clocks, pencils to chairs, there seems to be no end to the subject matter deemed worthy of collection and public display. This overview of museums in Britain traces their development from 'cabinets of curiosity' to large scale visitor attractions, taking in broad social shifts and trends as well as the collectors, eccentrics and visionaries and the legacies they have left. Zusammenfassung From global icons like the British Museum and the Ashmolean to the many hundreds of small collections to be found across the country, museums are at the very centre of our heritage. This book looks at museums in our culture and history as a whole, tracing the social shifts and trends which have affected them and of which they have been part. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction / Repositories of Curiosity / Museums for the Masses / Opening the Doors / Epilogue / Places to Visit / Further Reading / Index

Product details

• Authors: Christine Garwood, Garwood Christine
• Publisher: SHIRE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2014
• EAN: 9780747811961
• ISBN: 978-0-7478-1196-1
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 210 mm x 4 mm
• Series: Shire Library; Shire Library
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Collecting, collectors' catalogues; Non-fiction book; European History, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Social and cultural history