The Museum in the Cultural Sciences – Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting

The Museum in the Cultural Sciences – Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting

Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department

In early twentieth-century Berlin, the museumsdebate was set into motion with Wilhelm von Bode's sweeping proposal to reorganize a group of the city's museums. Between 1907 and 1910, two particularly striking series of articles appeared in the journal Museumskunde: Journal for the Administration and Technology of Public and Private Collections. The first was a six-part essay by Otto Lauffer on history museums and the second was a ten-part piece by Oswald Richter regarding ethnographic museums, and both initiated a century of important dialogue.\nPresented together here as Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting Material Culture, these first full English translations of the two book-length articles remain unequalled presentations about the different implications of art,\n\nThe Museum in the Cultural Sciences \u2013 Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting Material Culture in the Twentieth Century\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK deliv;

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