Author: Julius von HaastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Origin and Early History of the Canterbury Museum
Author: Julius von HaastPhotography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum
Author: Kathleen DavidsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351106872
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable contributors to knowledge and the progress of empire. This book addresses the complex relationship between natural history and photography from the 1850s to the 1880s in Britain and its colonies: Australia, New Zealand and, to a lesser extent, India. Coinciding with the rise of the modern museum, photography’s arrival was timely, and it rapidly became an essential technology for recording and publicising rare objects and valuable collections. Also during this period, the medium assumed a more significant role in the professional practices and reputations of naturalists than has been previously recognized, and it figured increasingly within the expanding specialized networks that were central to the production and dissemination of new knowledge. In an interrogation that ranges from the first forays into museum photography and early attempts to document collecting expeditions to the importance of traditional and photographic portraiture for the recognition of scientific discoveries, this book not only recasts the parameters of what we actually identify as natural history photography in the Victorian era but also how we understand the very structure of empire in relation to this genre at that time.
Museums, Their History and Their Use
Author: David MurrayPublisher: Glasgow, J. MacLehose and sons
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The History of Museums Vol 4
Author: David MurrayPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040130011
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Museums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies. This selected group of key texts opens the investigation and appreciation of museum history. Edward Edwards, chief pioneer of municipal public libraries, chronicles the founders and early donors to the British Museum. Greenwood and Murray provide informative pictures of the early history of the museum movement. Sir William Flower, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), takes a pioneering philosophical approach to the sphere of natural history in relation to museums. Similarly, Acland and Ruskin discuss and explore the relationships of art and architecture to museums.
Records of the Canterbury Museum Volume V. 1 (1907-12)
Author: N. Z. ) Canterbury Museum (ChristchurchPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355423546
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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History, heritage, and colonialism
Author: Kynan GentryPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1784991937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
History, heritage, and colonialism explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European origin. Focusing on New Zealand, but also covering the Australian and Canadian experiences, it explores how different groups and political interests have sought to harness historical narrative in support of competing visions of identity and memory. Considering this within the frames of the local and national as well as of empire, the book offers a valuable critique of the study of colonial identity-making and cultures of colonisation. This book offers important insights for societies negotiating the legacy of a colonial past in a global present, and will be of particular value to all those concerned with museum, heritage, and tourism studies, as well as imperial history.
Museums and empire
Author: John M. MacKenziePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526118327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Museums and Empire is the first book to examine the origins and development of museums in six major regions if the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyses museum histories in thirteen major centres in Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India and South-East Asia, setting them into the economic and social contexts of the cities and colonies in which they were located. Written in a lively and informative style, it also touches upon the history of many other museums in Britain and other territories of the Empire. A number of key themes emerge from its pages; the development of elites within colonial towns and cities; the emergence of the full range of cultural institutions associated with this; and the reception and modification of the key scientific ideas of the age. It will be essential reading for students and academics concerned with museum studies and imperial history and to a wider public devoted to the cause of museums and heritage
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Author: New Zealand InstitutePublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress.
Record of the Canterbury Museum. 1- 1907-
Author: Canterbury Museum (Christchurch, N.Z.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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