Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the changing practices of modern museums, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century.
This important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century.
'Sure to be a major intervention in museums and cultural studies ... an important and provocative text ... I expect this book to be as important as Birth of the Museum, which is saying something, since that work is the outstanding study of how museums and the public cultural sphere have developed.' -
Ivan Karp, Emory University
