MUSEUM MASTERS Their Museums & Their Influence ~ ILLUST

Museum Masters
Their Museums And
Their Influence

by
Edward P. Alexander

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Published by Altamira Press, division of Sage Publications Inc, copyright Walnut Creek CA 1999 edition. Having 428 indexed pages, illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings. Bound in 6 by 9 inch stiff paper wraps, showing only light edge wear, otherwise binding still internally tight and strong, contents clean and bright, and overall in very good condition.

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(text taken from back of book...)

How did museums evolve, in only the past 200 years, to become the major cultural centers and institutions of public learning we enjoy today? Who first unlocked the mystery and beauty of natural and man-made phenomena, and opened the doors for all the world to see?

Prompted by these questions and a lifelong interest in the development of the museum profession, Edward P Alexander embarked on an ambitious study of twelve strong-minded museum leaders in Europe and the United States-those with the vision, commitment, and innovative talents that would shape the future of the museum world.

MUSEUM MASTERS is the definitive work on the men and women whose legacy can be found in every present-day museum of national treasures, natural history museum, art museum, botanical garden, historic house museum, outdoor museum, museum of cultural history, and moated zoo. Through their personalities and individual accounts derived from the author's on-site research and communications with relatives and descendants of the masters-the history and purpose of each kind of museum comes to life in vivid detail.

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