Mermaids, Mummies, And Mastodons: The Emergence Of The American Museum (Maryland Historical Society)

American Association of Museums (Dec 02, 1991)

9780931201158

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104 pages | 206 x 284 mm

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Dewey 069.0973

LC Classification AM11 .M56 1992

LC Control No. 92029830//r9

Genre

US History

Subject

Museums - History. - United States

Plot

A “Feejee mermaid,” the skeletal remains of a “wooly mammoth,” and a “cabinet of learned turkies which will dance to music,” were attractions at Baltimore’s Peale Museum in the early 1800s. As the nation’s first museum directors, Charles Wilson Peale, and his sons Rembrandt and Rubens, laid the foundation of the modern American museum.

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