Curiosity and enlightenment : collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century

Publication Data

• Title Curiosity and enlightenment : collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century
• Author Arthur MacGregor
• Publisher Yale University Press
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location New Haven, Conn.
• Language English

Contents

The museum adumbrated : some models and precursors
The cabinet of curiosities : concept and realization
Collecting art
Museums and the natural world
Death, anatomy and the museum
Antiquity in transition
Museums of science and technology
The museum comes of age.

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Curiosity and enlightenment : collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century by Arthur MacGregor. ISBN 9780300124934. Published by Yale University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.