Product Description: Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix aims to change the discourse about museums from the inside out, proposing a new, “panarchic”—nonhierarchical and adaptive—vision for museum practice...read more

Product Description: The Smithsonian Institute boasts the largest and most diverse collection of historical artifacts in the United States. Founded in 1846, the Smithsonians focus has been to increase and share knowledge with its patrons. Discover more about this incredible museum and its collections in The Smithsonian, a Museums of the World book...read more

Product Description: In 'American Museums and the Persuasive Impulse', Professor Ragsdale assesses American museums as means of visual persuasion. He demonstrates that museums, their contents, and their manners of display are as capable of influencing visitors as speeches or advertisements are and that an awareness of their social influence provides an insight into the cultural roles of museums...read more

Few beyond the insider realize that museums own millions of objects the public never sees. In Lost in the Museum, Nancy Moses takes the reader behind the “employees only” doors to uncover the stories buried―along with the objects―in the crypts of museums, historical societies, and archives. Moses discovers the actual birds shot, stuffed, and painted by John James Audubon, America's most beloved bird artist; a spear that abolitionist John Brown carried in his quixotic quest to free the slaves; and the skull of a prehistoric Peruvian child who died with scurvy. She takes the reader to Ker-Feal, the secret farmhouse that Albert Barnes of the Barnes Foundation filled with fabulous American antiques and that was then left untouched for more than fifty years.Weaving the stories of the object, its original owner, and the often idiosyncratic institution where the object resides, the book reveals the darkest secret of the cultural world: the precarious balance of art, culture, and politics that keep items, for decades, lost in the museum.

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Product Description: A concise presentation of selected data from the 1989 National Museum Survey Data Report. Data is grouped into five categories: museum profile, existance and type of collections, public services, facilities/human resources, and finances...read more

Depicts the possessions of America's most celebrated art, history, and science museums, including the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan, Winterthur, and seventy-seven others

Indicates which United States museums have the finest collections of American, ancient, Asian, European, and modern art, and describes the location, admission, and hours for each institution

Indicates which United States museums have the finest collections of American, ancient, Asian, European, and modern art, and describes the location, admission, and hours for each institution

Product Description: Art, Art Studies, Social Studies, Law

Pictorial study of the wide variety of striking contemporary architectural designs in cultural centers, including libraries, museums, art galleries and performing arts centers

Indicates which United States museums have the finest collections of American, ancient, Asian, European, and modern art, and describes the location, admission, and hours for each institution