Main entry:

Conn, Steven.

Title & Author:

Museums and American intellectual life, 1876-1926 / Steven Conn.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1998.

Description:

305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-293) and index.
1. Museums and the Late Victorian World 2. "Naked Eye Science": Museums and Natural History 3. Between Science and Art: Museums and the Development of Anthropology 4. The Philadelphia Commercial Museum: A Museum to Conquer the World 5. Objects and American History: The Museums of Henry Mercer and Henry Ford 6. From South Kensington to the Louvre: Art Museums and the Creation of Fine Art 7. 1926: Of Fairs, Museums, and History.

Summary:

Conn's study includes familiar places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Academy of Natural Sciences, but he also draws attention to forgotten ones, like the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, once the repository for objects from many turn-of-the-century world's fairs. What emerges from Conn's analysis is that museums of all kinds shared a belief that knowledge resided in the objects themselves. Using what Conn has termed "object-based epistemology," museums of the late nineteenth century were on the cutting edge of American intellectual life. By the first quarter of the twentieth century, however, museums had largely been replaced by research-oriented universities as places where new knowledge was produced. According to Conn, not only did this mean a change in the way knowledge was conceived, but also, and perhaps more importantly, who would have access to it.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226114929 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226114927 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226114937
9780226114934

Subject:

Museums United States History.
Historical museums United States.
Museums history
Histoire Musées États-Unis.
Musées États-Unis Histoire.
02.01 history of science and culture.
Historical museums
Intellectual life
Museums
Geistesleben
Museum
Musea.
Intellectuele vorming.
United States Intellectual life 1865-1918.
United States Intellectual life 20th century.
United States History 1865-1921.
United States History 1919-1933.
Estados Unidos Vida intelectual 1865 1918.
Estados Unidos Vida intelectual Siglo XX.
Estados Unidos Historia 1865 1921.
Estados Unidos Historia 1919 1933.
États-Unis Vie intellectuelle 1865-1918.
États-Unis Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle.
États-Unis Histoire 1865-1921.
États-Unis Histoire 1919-1933.
United States
USA
États-Unis Vie intellectuelle 1918-1945.
États-Unis 1865-1921.
États-Unis 1919-1933.

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204098
Call No.: AM11 . C64 1998
Status: Available