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Lost in the Museum
Buried Treasures and the Stories They Tell
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2007
Summary
Few beyond the insider realize that museums own millions of objects the public never sees. In Lost in the Museum, Nancy Moses takes the reader behind the Oemployees onlyO doors to uncover the stories buried—along with the objects—in the crypts of museums, historical societies, and archives. Moses discovers the actual birds shot, stuffed, and painted by John James Audubon, AmericaOs most beloved bird artist; a spear that abolitionist John Brown carried in his quixotic quest to free the slaves; and the skull of a prehistoric Peruvian child who died with scurvy. She takes the reader to Ker-Feal, the secret farmhouse that Albert Barnes of the Barnes Foundation filled with fabulous American antiques and that was then left untouched for more than fifty years. Weaving the stories of the object, its original owner, and the often idiosyncratic institution where the object resides, the book reveals the darkest secret of the cultural world: the precarious balance of art, culture, and politics that keep items, for decades, lost in the museum.
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Copyright year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7591-1069-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7591-1362-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
172
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CONTENTS No access
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
INTRODUCTION "The Stuff" No access Pages 1 - 8
Academy of Natural Sciences No access
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh No access
Historical Society of Pennsylvania No access
Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia No access
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History No access
Barnes Foundation No access
Athenaeum of Philadelphia No access
Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia No access
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture No access
EPILOGUE No access Pages 151 - 154
RESOURCES: FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO LEARN MORE No access Pages 155 - 158
