Museums Their History And Their Use Vol 2 PDF Download

Excerpt from Museums, Their History and Their Use, Vol. 1: With a Bibliography and List of Museums in the United Kingdom Having at various times, during the last thirty years, visited the principal museums of the United Kingdom, of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Finland and Russia, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Holland, the United States and Canada, I was anxious to learn something of the history and development of museums as scientific institutions. Strange to say, however, there is little or nothing bearing upon the subject in the ordinary books of reference. There are only twenty-three lines upon it in the last edition of Chambers' Cyclopaedia; there is no article upon Museums in the last edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, but there is a short notice, principally relating to art museums, in the recent supplement to this work. "Museum" does not appear as a title in Leon Vallee's Bibliographie des bibliographies or Petzholdt's Bibliotheca bibliographica. "Museums" is not an independent subject in Mr. Fortescue's exhaustive Subject-index of the modern works in the British Museum, but is included under "Exhibitions" and "Natural History" and such headings as "Anatomy," "Art," "Ceramics" and the like. The title only casually occurs in Mr. Sonnenschein's valuable Readers Guide and The Best Books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.