Curators and Culture: The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870

by Joel J. Orosz

Book Overview

This volume argues that a small, loosely connected group of men constituted an informal museum movement in America from about 1740 to 1870. As they formed their pioneer museums, these men were guided not so much by European examples, but rather by the imperatives of the American democratic culture, including the Enlightenment, the simultaneous decline of the respectability and rise of the middle classes, the Age of Egalitarianism, and the advent of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817312048
• ISBN13: 9780817312046
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 to Postsecondary