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Nature and culture : objects, disciplines, and the Manchester Museum / / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti



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Autore: Alberti Samuel J. M. M. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Nature and culture : objects, disciplines, and the Manchester Museum / / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 069.0942733
Soggetto topico: Museums - Collection management - England - Manchester - History
Museums - History - 20th century
Museums - Collection management
Soggetto non controllato: European collections
John Leigh Philips
Manchester Geological Society
Manchester Museum
Manchester Natural History Society
biodiversity
botany
civic identity
cultural landscape
environmentalism
geology
museological changes
priceless objects
public engagement
scientific disciplines
twentieth-century Britain
zoology
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-227) and index.
Sommario/riassunto: This is a vital new work; the first to take the University of Manchester's Museum as its subject. By setting the museum in its cultural and intellectual contexts, Nature and culture explores twentieth-century collecting and display, and the status of the object in the modern world. Beginning with the origins of the Manchester Museum, accounting for its development as an internationally renowned university museum, and concluding at its major expansion at the turn of the millennium, this book casts new light on the history of museums. How did objects become knowledge? Who encountered museum objects on their way to museums? What happened to collections within the museum? How did visitors use and respond to objects? In answering these questions, Nature and culture illuminates not only the history of one institution, but also contributes to wider discussions in the history of science, cultural history and museology.
Titolo autorizzato: Nature and culture  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5261-2954-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810352603321
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