by SConn (Author)
Examining various museums, this text argues that Americans built the institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the world's knowledge. It discovers how they gave definition to different bodies of knowledge and how that knowledge was presented.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 314
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 13 Dec 2000
ISBN 10: 0226114937
ISBN 13: 9780226114934