Museums, Their History and Their Use: With a Bibliography and List of Museums in the United Kingdom - Hardcover

Murray, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1891396048 ISBN 13: 9781891396045

Publisher: Pober Pub Co, 2000

Synopsis

This reprint of the 1904 three-volume work (two volumes in this iteration) includes a new introduction by Paula Findlen (Stanford U.) in which she asserts that Murray's Museum "stands as a reminder that the computerized tools of twentieth-century scholarship seem barely adequate to allow an entire community of scholars to achieve what a single researcher managed to do with paper and pen at the beginning of the century" and "continues to be the most important work of reference for the early history of the museum." Findlen's introduction includes a bibliography of recent work on the history of museums. In the bibliography (volumes two and three in the original, now one volume), the museums are arranged under the towns or places where they are situated, private collections are listed under the name of the collector, and authors are given separately as cross-references. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author:

David Murray is a University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pober Pub Co
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1891396048
• ISBN 13: 9781891396045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 354