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Museum Studies & Public History
A guide to library and online sources for research in museum studies.
- Getting Started
- Introducing Museum Studies
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Collecting & Display - Historical Background
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Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles by Daniel J. Sherman; Irit Rogoff
Call Number: N430 .M78 1994 -
Cabinets of Wonder: A Passion for Collecting by Christine Davenne
Call Number: AM342 .D3713 2012 -
Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy by Paula Findlen
Call Number: Q105 .I8 F56 1994Also available as an e-book. -
Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy by Hugh H. Genoways
Call Number: AM7 .M8726 2008 -
Nature's Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display by Carla Yanni
Call Number: QH70.A1 Y25 1999 -
Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Jane Milosch; Nicholas Pierce
Call Number: AM133 .C65 2019The history of collecting through the lens of provenance.
Museum Architecture
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Museum Architecture: A New Biography by Suzanne Macleod
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Museum Architecture by Justin Henderson
Call Number: NA6690 .H46 1998 -
American Art Museum Architecture: Documents and Design by Eric M. Wolf
Call Number: NA6696.U6 W64 2010