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| Titel |
Museums and American intellectual life, 1876-1926 |
| Auteur |
S. Conn |
| Plaats van uitgave |
Chicago, [etc.] |
| Uitgever |
University of Chicago press |
| Jaar van uitgave |
1998
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| ISBN |
0-226-11492-9
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| Annotatie |
VIII, 305 p. : afb. ; 24 cm. - Met lit. opg. - Met reg.
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| Trefwoorden |
musea, museologie, culturele waarde, publiek, Verenigde Staten, negentiende eeuw, geschiedenis (vorm) |
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Samenvatting
During the last half of the nineteenth century, Americans built many of the country's most celebrated museums, such as the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Chicago's Field Museum. They built these institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the world's knowledge. Museums of all kinds shared a belief that knowledge resided in the objects themselves, and therefore were on the cutting edge of American intellectual life. By the first quarter of the twentieth century, however, museums had largely been replaced by research-oriented universities as places where new knowledge was produced. This did not only mean a change in the way knowledge was concieved, but also, and perhaps more importantly, who would have access to it. |
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