'. . . for the instruction and recreation of the people'. So ran the nineteenth-century legislation relating to municipal museums. This is the story of how a few museum curators in Britain organized themselves to form the Museums Association in 1889 and how some of their early aspirations were met, often decades later.
The Museums Association was the first of is kind in the world. It pioneered the certification of museum training, the development of national standards for computerized cataloguing and the promotion of the museums' educational potential. For a period it also provided information, training and practical assistance for many of the museums in the British Empire and Commonwealth.
This is the first history of the Association and Geoffrey Lewis has brought together some fascinating insights into the extent of its activity and the number of successes it achieved.
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Höhe: 220 mm
Breite: 140 mm
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978-1-870948-37-1 (9781870948371)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Geoffrey Lewis was born in 1933 and commenced his museum career at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery in 1950. Since then he held the directorships of both the Sheffield City Museums and the Merseyside County Museums at Liverpool. He retired as Director of Museum Studies in the University of Leicester in 1989. A past president of the Museums Association, he has served on many of its committees and been closely involved in its work, particularly in developing computerized documentation for museum collections and in curatorial training. He has also worked in the international field, having just completed a period of six years as President of the International Council of Museums.
