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Industrial society and its museums : 1890-1990 : social aspirations and cultural politics

Title: Industrial society and its museums : 1890-1990 : social aspirations and cultural politics / edited by B. Schroeder-Gudehus ; with the collaboration of E. Bolenz and A. Rasmussen.
Publication: Chur ; Philadelphia : Harwood Academic, [1993], ©1993.

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Description

ix, 104 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Uniform Title

Societé industrielle et ses musées. English.

Subjects

Industrial museums > History
Technology > Social aspects > History

Note

Includes index.

Contents

Preface / Roger Lesgards -- Patrons and Publics: Museums as Historical Artefacts / Brigitte Schroeder-Gudehus -- Science, Education and Museums in Britain, 1870-1914 / Mari Williams -- The Political History of Museums of Technology in Germany Since the Nineteenth Century / Wolfhard Weber -- The City as a Museum of Technology / Miriam R. Levin -- An Olympic Stadium of Technology: Deutsches Museum and Sweden's Tekniska Museet / Svante Lindqvist -- Clean Exhibits, Messy Exhibits: Henry Ford's Technological Aesthetic / John M. Staudenmaier -- Corporate Advertising, Public Relations and Popular Exhibits: The Case of DuPont / David J. Rhees -- Celebration or Education? The Goals of the U.S. National Air and Space Museum / Alex Roland -- The New Generation of Museums: Technical, Industrial and "Ecomuseums" / Louis Bergeron.

ISBN

371865301X

LCCN

92019217

OCLC

25913942
ocm25913942

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Columbia University Libraries