Nature and Culture asks how objects were collected and displayed in the twentieth century. It explores natural and cultural objects in the Manchester Museum, a major university collection. How did these specimens come to be there? What happened to them in the collection, and who used them?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: museum historiographies
1. Prologue: the Manchester Natural History Society
2. Nature: scientific disciplines in the museum
3. Culture: artefacts and disciplinary formation
4. Acquisition: collecting networks and the museum
5. Practice: technique and the lives of objects in the collection
6. Visitors: audiences and objects
Conclusion: the museum in the twentieth century
Notes
List of archives
Bibliography
Index
