Berkowitz, Carin (Editor)
Lightman, Bernard V. (Editor)
The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it—an institution of expert knowledge built to inform a lay public—was still very much in formation during this dynamic period. Science Museums in Transition provides a nuanced, comparative study of the diverse places and spaces in which science was displayed at a time when science and spectacle were still deeply intertwined; when leading naturalists, curators, and popular showmen were debating both how to display their knowledge and how and whether they should profit from scientific work; and when ideals of nationalism, class politics, and democracy were permeating the museum’s walls. Contributors examine a constellation of people, spaces, display practices, experiences, and politics that worked not only to define the museum, but to shape public science and scientific knowledge. Taken together, the chapters in this volume span the Atlantic, exploring private and public museums, short and long-term exhibitions, and museums built for entertainment, education, and research, and in turn raise a host of important questions, about expertise, and about who speaks for nature and for history.
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Joe Kember;
John Plunkett;
Jill A. Sullivan;
(2012)
Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840-1910
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Uwe Albrecht;
(2018)
Bilder aus dem Tierleben: Phillip Leopold Martin (1815-1885) und die Popularisierung der Naturkunde im 19. Jahrhundert
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Li-chuan Tai;
(2021)
The Shanghai Museum and the introduction of taxidermy and habitat dioramas into China, 1874–1952
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Miira B. Hill;
(2022)
The New Art of Old Public Science Communication: The Science Slam
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Kasey Marie Sease;
(2021)
Marketing Agencies for Science: Nonprofits, Public Science Education, and Capitalism in Modern America
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Hoffman, Christoph;
(2008)
Daten sichern. Schreiben und Zeichnen als Verfahren der Aufzeichnung
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Fyfe, Aileen;
(2007)
Reading Natural History at the British Museum and the Pictorial Museum
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Kember, Joe;
Plunkett, John;
Sullivan, Jill A.;
(2012)
Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840--1910
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Sherra Murphy;
(2021)
"The First National Museum": Dublin's Natural History Museum in the Mid-nineteenth Century
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Emmanuel Haymann;
Philippe Wagneur;
Jacques Ayer;
Laurent Vallotton;
(2020)
Muséum Genève - 200 ans d'histoire naturelle
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Lee McIntyre;
(2021)
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
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Willis, Martin;
(2012)
On Wonder: Situating the Spectacle in Spiritualism and Performance Magic
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Wendel, Paul J.;
(2011)
Object-Based Epistemology at a Creationist Museum
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Anastasia Fedotova;
Tomasz Samojlik;
Piotr Daszkiewicz;
(2018)
Killing for Museums: European Bison as a Museum Exhibit
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Schock, Flemming;
(2011)
Die Text-Kunstkammer: populäre Wissenssammlungen des Barock am Beispiel der “Relationes Curiosae”
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Craske, Matthew;
(2011)
“Unwholesome” and “Pornographic”: A Reassessment of the Place of Rackstrow's Museum in the Story of Eighteenth-Century Anatomical Collection and Exhibition
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Adams, Ellen;
(2013)
Shaping, Collecting and Displaying Medicine and Architecture: A Comparison of the Hunterian and Soane Museums
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Madsen-Brooks, Leslie;
(2013)
A Synthesis of Expertise and Expectations: Women Museum Scientists, Club Women and Populist Natural Science in the United States, 1890--1950
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Duarte, Regina Horta;
(2013)
Between the National and the Universal: Natural History Networks in Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Sara Spike;
(2020)
Mayflowers and Sleeping Johnnies: Nature-Study, Local Knowledge, and A. H. MacKay’s Phenological Research in Rural Nova Scotia, 1892-1925
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