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Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century - Couverture souple

Rader, Karen A.; Cain, Victoria E. M.

 
9780226598734: Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 022659873X ISBN 13 : 9780226598734
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2019

Synopsis

Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle profound changes in these exhibitions--and the institutions that housed them--between 1910 and 1990, ultimately offering new perspectives on the history of museums, science, and science education.

Rader and Cain explain why science and natural history museums began to welcome new audiences between the 1900s and the 1920s and chronicle the turmoil that resulted from the introduction of new kinds of biological displays. They describe how these displays of life changed dramatically once again in the 1930s and 1940s, as museums negotiated changing, often conflicting interests of scientists, educators, and visitors. The authors then reveal how museum staffs, facing intense public and scientific scrutiny, experimented with wildly different definitions of life science and life science education from the 1950s through the 1980s. The book concludes with a discussion of the influence that corporate sponsorship and blockbuster economics wielded over science and natural history museums in the century's last decades.

A vivid, entertaining study of the ways science and natural history museums shaped and were shaped by understandings of science and public education in the twentieth-century United States, Life on Display will appeal to historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture, as well as museum practitioners and general readers.

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À propos des auteurs

Karen A. Rader is associate professor in the Department of History at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Victoria E. M. Cain is assistant professor in the Department of History at Northeastern University.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022659873X
ISBN 13 
9780226598734
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
456
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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