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Author Alexander, Edward P. (Edward Porter), 1907-2003.

Title Museum masters : their museums and their influence / Edward P. Alexander
Published Nashville, Tenn. : American Association for State and Local History, [1983]
©1983

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 MELB  069.90922 ALE-M  AVAILABLE
Description x, 428 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Contents Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum -- Charles Willson Peale and his Philadelphia Museum -- Dominique Vivant Denon and the Louvre of Napoleon -- William Jackson Hooker and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew --Henry Cole and the South Kensington (Victoria and Albert) Museum -- Ann Pamela Cunningham and Washington's Mount Vernon -- Wilhelm Bode and Berlin's Museum Island -- Artur Hazelius and Skansen -- George Brown Goode and the Smithsonian Museums -- Carl Hagenbeck and his Stellingen Tierpark -- Oskar von Miller and the Deutsches Museum -- John Cotton Dana and the Newark Museum
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Museum directors -- Europe -- Biography.
Museum directors -- United States -- Biography.
Museum directors.
Museum techniques.
Museums.
Museums -- history.
SUBJECT Europe. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005060
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Europe. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005060
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Genre/Form Biography.
Biographies.
LC no. 83007086
ISBN 0910050686