Top 10 Best "History Museums" Books

The Rarest of the Rare

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Mark Sloan

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Official Guide To The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Smithsonian

History Museums

Official Guide To The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

An indispensable companion to the world's most-visited natural history museum.

With more than 124 million specimens, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History houses one of the world's most important collections of natural history artifacts. This lavishly illustrated guidebook offers a beautiful tour and souvenir of the exciting collections. Starting with the history of the museum and a peek behind the scenes, readers then enter the museum through the Rotunda, where they are greeted by the famous elephant diorama-the world's largest mounted specimen of this enormous mammal. The tour continues into the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals, home to the legendary Hope Diamond. The Fossils section traces the history of life on earth, from the earliest organisms to the great diversity of plants and animals in the modern world. Biology features living species, including the incredible array of furry creatures in the brand-new Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals. The Anthropology section examines human evolution, exploring cultures from all...

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Dry Storeroom No. 1

Richard Fortey

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The World Must Know

Michael Berenbaum

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Domesticating History

Patricia West

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Museums After Modernism

Griselda Pollock
Joyce Zemans

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Ocean (American Museum of Natural History)

Robert Dinwiddie
Philip Eales
Sue Scott
Michael Scott
Kim Bryan

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New York 400

The Museum of the City of New York

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The New History in an Old Museum

Richard Handler
Eric Gable

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History Museums in the United States

Warren Leon
Roy Rosenzweig

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Museum Origins

With the development of institutions displaying natural science, history, and art in the late 19th century came the debates over the role of these museum in society. This anthology collects 52 of the most important writings on museum philosophy dating from this formative period, written by the many of the American and European founders of the field. Genoways and Andrei contextualize these pieces with a series of introductions showing how the museum field developed within the social environment of the era. For those interested in museum history and philosophy or cultural history, this is an essential resource.

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Museum Origins

Hugh H Genoways
Mary Anne Andrei

History Museums

Rogues' Gallery

Michael Gross

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