Making of Museums in Nigeria - Kenneth C. Murray and Heritage Preservation in Colonial West Africa

This book provides an in-depth look at the early history of museums in Nigeria through the letters of Kenneth C. Murray, Bernard E.B. Fagg, and Edward H. Duckworth, uncovering the early efforts to preserve cultural heritage, repatriate stolen art, and build institutions that would define a nation.

List of contents

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: K.C. Murray and E.H. Duckworth Find Their Blue Ocean
Chapter 2: A Case for a Nigerian Antiquities Department
Chapter 3: Never Enough Surveys
Chapter 4: The Guiding Mission of the Antiquities Department
Chapter 5: Building National Museums
Chapter 6: Building Regional Museums
Chapter 7: The Independence Decade
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Amanda H. Hellman

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Hellman, Amanda H. Hellman
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781666912678
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-267-8
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, ART / African, History of art / art & design styles, Politics & government, History of Art, African History