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Table of Contents: “…Individual Biography and Museum History --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Contents -- 1 The Beginnings -- 2 The Founders -- 3 Laying the Foundations -- 4 The Opening -- 5 The Age of Innocence -- 6 The End of the Beginning -- 7 Education in the Museum -- 8 Gaining Ground -- 9 Bishop as Archaeologist -- 10 In Search of an Identity -- 11 A Time of Transition -- 12 Taking Stock -- 13 A New Era -- 14 Calmer Waters -- 15 Stormy Petrel -- 16 Projecting the Future -- 17 Planning the Future -- 18 Expansion and Renovation -- 19 Mankind Discovering -- 20 Epilogue -- Notes and References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D…”
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Table of Contents: “…Locating the museum -- "A world of wonders in one closet shut" -- Searching for paradigms -- Sites of knowledge -- Laboratories of nature -- Pilgrimages of science -- Fare esperienza -- Museums of medicine -- Economies of exchange -- Inventing the collector -- Patrons, brokers, and strategies -- Epilogue: The old and the new.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction. Museums and national identities in Europe in the twenty-first century / Robin Ostow -- pt. 1. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Chapter 6 -- Crossing Europe: Migration and Mobility in Museal SpacesConclusion -- Exhibiting Europe: The Practice of Europeanisation in Museums; Appendix I: Interviews; Appendix 2: Museums and Exhibitions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…National origins and local identity: museums of premodern history -- Exhibiting the revolution: the museum of the Chinese revolution -- Commodification and nostalgia: revolutionary history in the era of the market economy -- Martyrdom and memory: monuments, memorials, and museums for dead heroes -- Martial glory and the power of the state: military museums -- Heroic resistance and victims of atrocity: negotiating the memory of Japanese imperialism -- Heroic models and exemplary leaders: memorial halls -- Literary politics and cultural heritage: modern literature museums -- Ethnic minorities and the construction of national identity: ethnographic museums -- Revolutionary memory and national landscape: Red tourism -- Museums of the future: municipal urban planning exhibition halls.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Thinking about museums -- Do museums still need objects? -- Whose objects? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: museums on the front lines: confronting the "Conspiracy of silence" -- "When civil rights are not enough": building the Black museum movement -- "Not in my backyard": the contested origins of the African American Museum of Philadelphia -- Confronting the "Tyranny of relevance": exhibits and the politics of representation -- "To satisfy a deadline but little else": the public debut of the African American Museum of Philadelphia -- Rocky transitions: Black museums approach a new era -- A museum for the future: the National Museum of African American History and culture -- Conclusion: the ties that bind: museums as community agents.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Prologue : a new kind of technician : in search of the culture of public history -- A matter of national dignity : education and federal authority -- Managing the landscape : national parks, national monuments, and the use of public land -- Losing their identity : National Park Service museums and federal collections -- Ignorant and local-minded influences : historic sites and the expansion of the National Park Service -- Real park service men : on the ground and in the books -- Park service diggers : public historians and the problem of status -- Conclusion : toward a new genealogy of public history.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Moving toward the museum : the collection of antique spolia -- Parallel collections of weapons and antiquities -- The rise of the imperial museum -- The dialectic of law and infringement -- Technologies of collection : railroads and cameras -- Antiquities collections in the imperial museum -- Islamic arts in imperial collections -- Military collections in the late empire -- Islamic and archaeological antiquities after the Young Turk revolution.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Hammond Castle Museum (Gloucester) -- The Paper House (Rockport) -- New England Quilt Museum (Lowell) -- National Streetcar Museum at Lowell (Lowell) -- Boott Cotton Mills Museum (Lowell) -- Museum of Bad Art (Somerville) -- The Sports Museum (Boston) -- Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum (Boston) -- The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (Boston) -- The Waterworks Museum (Boston) -- Larz Anderson Auto Museum (Brookline) -- The Plumbing Museum (Watertown) -- Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History (Weston) -- Golden Ball Tavern Museum (Weston) -- The International Museum of World War II (Natick) -- Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast/Museum (Fall River) -- Battleship Cove (Fall River) -- National Black Doll Museum of History and Culture (Mansfield) -- Brockton Fire Museum (Brockton) -- Museum of Antiquated Technology (Hanson) -- Beer Can Museum (East Taunton) -- Dighton Rock Museum (Berkley) -- Coast Guard Heritage Museum (Barnstable) -- John F. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Holocaust Memorial Museum -- The artful eye: learning to see and perceive otherwise inside museum exhibits -- "We are the last witnesses:" artifact, aura, and authenticity -- Refiguring the sacred through words, flames, and trains -- Rituals of remembrance: Zionism and pilgrimage on Har Hazikaron and encountering the void in Berlin.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Gathering for God : George Brown and the Christian economy in the collection of artefacts / Helen Gardner -- Exploring tensions in material culture : commercialising ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904 / Rainer Buschmann -- 'Before it has become too late' : the making and repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's official collection from British New Guinea / Michael Quinnell -- Surveying culture : photography, collecting and material culture in British New Guinea, 1898 / Elizabeth Edwards -- Collecting pygmies : the 'Tapiro' and the British Ornithologists' Union expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911 / Chris Ballard -- One time, one place, three collections : colonial processes and the shaping of some museum collections from German New Guinea / Robert L. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Fine art and demand : debating the Mexican national canon (1876-1910) -- Our archaeology : science, citizenry, patrimony, and the museum -- The hidden lives of historical monuments : commerce, fashion, and memorial -- Collections at the World's Fair : rereading Mexico in Paris, 1889 -- Collecting numbers : statistics and the constructive force of deficiency.…”
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