Author: Carnegie Museum
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Author: Carnegie Museum
Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 451

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Author: Michael J. Samways
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780412454400
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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The realms of conservationists and entomologists are brought together.

Author: Carnegie Institute
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Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Includes report of the director of fine arts, of the director of the Museum, and of the director of the Technical schools.

Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1450

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Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Author: Karen A. Rader
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022607983X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums’ shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle profound changes in these exhibitions—and the institutions that housed them—between 1910 and 1990, ultimately offering new perspectives on the history of museums, science, and science education. Rader and Cain explain why science and natural history museums began to welcome new audiences between the 1900s and the 1920s and chronicle the turmoil that resulted from the introduction of new kinds of biological displays. They describe how these displays of life changed dramatically once again in the 1930s and 1940s, as museums negotiated changing, often conflicting interests of scientists, educators, and visitors. The authors then reveal how museum staffs, facing intense public and scientific scrutiny, experimented with wildly different definitions of life science and life science education from the 1950s through the 1980s. The book concludes with a discussion of the influence that corporate sponsorship and blockbuster economics wielded over science and natural history museums in the century’s last decades. A vivid, entertaining study of the ways science and natural history museums shaped and were shaped by understandings of science and public education in the twentieth-century United States, Life on Display will appeal to historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture, as well as museum practitioners and general readers.

Author: Carnegie Museum
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 806

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Author: Carnegie Institute
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Includes report of the director of fine arts, of the director of the Museum, and of the director of the Technical schools.

Author: Carnegie Museum
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Author: Olof August Peterson
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Category : Vertebrates, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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