Museums in Britain: A History

by Christine Garwood

Overview

Museums are at the heart of the nation's cultural life, bastions of Britishness in almost every major city and town. Together they detail myriad aspects of our heritage: from lawnmowers to cuckoo clocks, pencils to chairs, there seems to be no end to the subject matter deemed worthy of collection and public display. This overview of museums in Britain traces their development from 'cabinets of curiosity' to large scale visitor attractions, taking in broad social shifts and trends as well as the collectors, eccentrics and visionaries and the legacies they have left behind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780747815266
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	06/10/2014
Series:	Shire Library , #703
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

Christine Garwood is an author and researcher specialising in nineteenth-century social history and the history of science. She has published on topics as diverse as Victorian environmentalism, quack medicine, popular astronomy and the history of ideas.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Repositories of Curiosity / Museums for the Masses / Opening the Doors / Epilogue / Places to Visit / Further Reading / Index