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Nature and Culture asks how objects were collected and displayed in the twentieth century. It explores natural and cultural objects in the Manchester Museum, a major university collection. How did these specimens come to be there? What happened to them in the collection, and who used them?

Table of Contents

Introduction: museum historiographies
1. Prologue: the Manchester Natural History Society
2. Nature: scientific disciplines in the museum
3. Culture: artefacts and disciplinary formation
4. Acquisition: collecting networks and the museum
5. Practice: technique and the lives of objects in the collection
6. Visitors: audiences and objects
Conclusion: the museum in the twentieth century
Notes
List of archives
Bibliography
Index

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    Publisher: Manchester University Press
    Publication Date: 10/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780719089039, 978-0719089039
    ISBN10: 0719089034
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    Treatments and subjects Museology and heritage studies

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Nature and Culture asks how objects were collected and displayed in the twentieth century. It explores natural and cultural objects in the Manchester Museum, a major university collection. How did these specimens come to be there? What happened to them in the collection, and who used them?

    Table of Contents

    Introduction: museum historiographies
    1. Prologue: the Manchester Natural History Society
    2. Nature: scientific disciplines in the museum
    3. Culture: artefacts and disciplinary formation
    4. Acquisition: collecting networks and the museum
    5. Practice: technique and the lives of objects in the collection
    6. Visitors: audiences and objects
    Conclusion: the museum in the twentieth century
    Notes
    List of archives
    Bibliography
    Index

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