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History of Museums

Exhibiting 44 entries found in the GMN corpus.

YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1924 CE​–1929 CEA bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.
2016 CEAnatomy museum: Death and the body displayed.
2002 CECabinets of curiosities.
1893 CECentenaire de la fondation de Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893. Volume commemoratif publiée par les professeurs du muséum.
1988 CECollections et collectionneurs dans la France du XVIIe siècle.
2010 CEDeath defied: The anatomy lessons of Frederik Ruysch. Translated by Diane Webb.
1995 CEDiseases in wax: A history of the medical moulage.
2015 CEElegant anatomy: The eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections.
2009 CEForces of form. Laurens de Rooy and Hans van den Bogaard (photographs). Compliled and edited by Simon Knepper, Johan Kortenray, Antoon Moorman.
2006 CEFrom Wunderkammer to museum.
1823 CEHistoire de description du Muséum royal d'histoire naturelle, ouvrage rédigé d'après les ordres de l'administration du muséum.
2011 CEHolophusicon: The Leverian Museum, an eighteenth-century English institution of science, curiosity and art.
2017 CEHuman anatomy: Stereoscopic images of medical specimens. From the collection of the Vrolik Museum. Photographs by Jim Naughten, text by Laurens de Rooy.
2014 CEJoseph Towne at the Gordon Museum.
1992 CEL'inventario del mondo: Catalogazione della natura e luoghi del sapere nella prima età moderna.
1999 CELes musées de médecine: Histoire, patrimoine et grandes figures de la médecine en France.
2017 CEMalleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.
1888 CEMedical museums, with special reference to the Army Medical Museum at Washington. The president's address delivered before the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, September 20, 1888.
2013 CEMedical museums: Past, present, future.
2003 CEMedicine man: The forgotten medical museum of Henry Wellcome.
2011 CEModel experts: Wax anatomies and enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775-1815.
2011 CEMorbid curiosities: Medical museums in nineteenth-century Britain.
1980 CEMr. Peale's museum: Charles Willson Peale and the first popular museum of natural science and art.
1904 CEMuseums: Their history and their use with a bibliography and list of museums in the United Kingdom. 3 vols.
1987 CENatural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.
2005 CENature's museums: Victorian science and the architecture of display.
2017 CEObject lessons and the formation of knowledge: University of Michigan museums, libraries and collections 1817-2017. Edited by Kerstin Barndt and Carla M. Sinopoli.
2017 CEPhotography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.
1994 CEPossessing nature: Museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy.
2004 CERappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.
1998 CESarah Stone: Natural curiosities from the new worlds
2001 CEStuffed animals and pickled heads: The culture and evolution of natural history museums.
1972 CETemples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums.
1964 CEThe Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Its first century.
2015 CEThe fate of anatomical collections.
1998 CEThe Fool's Tower: The Federal Pathological-Anatomical Museum at the Old General Hospital in Vienna.
1904 CE​–1912 CEThe history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. 3 vols. [Edited by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther.]
1946 CEThe Hunterian Museum yesterday and to-morrow, being the Hunterian Oration for 1945 delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
1985 CEThe origins of museums: The cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe.
1978 CEThe shows of London.
2000 CEThe world of Auzoux: Models of man and beast in papier-maché.
2018 CEWilliam Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum. Edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis with the assistance of Maria Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui.
2007 CEWilliam Hunter and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, 1807-2007.
2015 CEWilliam Hunter's world: The art and science of eighteenth-century collecting.