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Museum Studies & Public History
A guide to library and online sources for research in museum studies.
Picture credit: dun_deagh, Wildlife Panorama, National Museum of Scotland. 2012. Photograph. Some rights reserved.
Collecting & Display - Historical Background
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Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles by Call Number: N430 .M78 1994
Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century by Call Number: N5200 .M32 2007
The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine: The Kunstkammer and the Evolution of Nature, Art, and Technology by Call Number: N1010 .B7413 1995
Cabinets of Wonder: A Passion for Collecting by Call Number: AM342 .D3713 2012
Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy by Call Number: Q105 .I8 F56 1994Also available as an e-book.
Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy by Call Number: AM7 .M8726 2008
Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Call Number: N2030 .M34 1999
Nature's Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display by Call Number: QH70.A1 Y25 1999
Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary Approach by 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 Available as an e-book
Museum Architecture by Call Number: NA6690 .H46 1998
American Art Museum Architecture: Documents and Design by Call Number: NA6696.U6 W64 2010
