Museums Objects and Collections

by Susan M. Pearce

Book Overview

Museums hold the collected objects that have come to us from the past, and which now constitute one of the most important ways in which we can understand that past. Museums are social phenomena characteristic of the modernist Western tradition, and their collections of both human and natural history material are a significant part of how that tradition has shaped itself.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718514424
• ISBN13: 9780718514426
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 256 Pages