Curiosity and enlightenment : collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century
Arthur MacGregor (Author), Yale University Press (Publisher)
"This fascinating book offers a history of museum collecting in western Europe over the course of its formative centuries, tracing its origins from the culture of collecting that emerged during the Renaissance and concluding with the great changes of the nineteenth century which would prove so influential to the museum movement of later years." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2007037995-d.html
Print Book, English, 2007
Yale University Press, New Haven [Conn.], 2007
History
x, 386 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
9780300124934, 0300124937
173136007
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