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Museum masters : their museums and their influence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alexander, Edward P. (Edward Porter), 1907-2003
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tenn. : American Association for State and Local History, [1983]
Subjects:
Museum techniques.
Museum directors > Europe > Biography.
Museum directors > United States > Biography.
Museums > Europe > history.
Museums > United States > history.
Museums > Europe > biography.
Museums > United States > biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum
  • Charles Willson Peale and his Philadelphia Museum
  • Dominique Vivant Denon and the Louvre of Napoleon
  • William Jackson Hooker and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew
  • Henry Cole and the South Kensington (Victoria and Albert) Museum
  • Ann Pamela Cunningham and Washington's Mount Vernon
  • Wilhelm Bode and Berlin's Museum Island
  • Artur Hazelius and Skansen
  • George Brown Goode and the Smithsonian Museums
  • Carl Hagenbeck and his Stellingen Tierpark
  • Oskar von Miller and the Deutsches Museum
  • John Cotton Dana and the Newark Museum.