Nature's Museums Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display |
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| Author:
| Yanni, Carla
Yamane, David |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-6326-4 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2000 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $128.00 |
Book Description:
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''Museums produced natural knowledge and were themselves architectural spectacles,'' writes Carla Yanni. ''As such, they comprise a rich cultural site suggestive of interdisciplinary historical study.'' In Nature's Museums, Yanni brings together the history of architecture and history of science in an engaging study of how the Victorians ......
''Museums produced natural knowledge and were themselves architectural spectacles,'' writes Carla Yanni. ''As such, they comprise a rich cultural site suggestive of interdisciplinary historical study.'' In Nature's Museums, Yanni brings together the history of architecture and history of science in an engaging study of how the Victorians ......