Book ID: CBB000500696

Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum (2002)

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Macdonald, Sharon (Author)


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Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: xiii + 293 pp.; ill.; bibl; index
Language: English

Description Ethnographic analysis of a major science exhibition at the Science Museum, London. (from the publisher)


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Review Bennett, Jim (2004) Review of "Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 99). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Peavitt, Helen
Fallon, Richard
Katie McCallum
Russell, Ben
Santoro, Lily A.
Wigelsworth, Jeffrey Robert
Journals
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
British Journal for the History of Mathematics
Victorian Literature and Culture
Science as Culture
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Hyle
Publishers
University of Delaware
Science Museum
Indiana University Press
Ashgate
Cambridge University Press
University of Pittsburgh
Concepts
Popularization
Popular culture
Museums
Science and culture
Science and society
Science
People
Hutchinson, Henry Neville
Newton, Isaac
Lyons, Henry George
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Ghadiali, Dinshah Pestanj
Du Chaillu, Paul
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
British Isles
England
London (England)
Sweden
Institutions
Science Museum, London
British Interplanetary Society
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