Museum History Journal
Edited by Hugh H. Genoways and Mary Anne Andrei
January 2009 Vol. 2, N. 1

Table of Contents

From the Editors

Feature Articles

Wax Bodies: Art and Anato my in Victorian Medical Museums -- Samuel J.
M. M. Alberti

Narrativity and the Museological: Myths of Nationality -- Donald
Preziosi

Matter of Fact: Biographies and Zoological Specimens -- Taika Dahlbom

Frederic Ward Putnam, Chicago's Cultural Philanthropists, and the
Founding of the Field Museum -- Paul D. Brinkman

Book Reviews

Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art In Public Galleries
by David Carrier -- reviewed by Bruce Robertson

Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of
Museums, second edition by Edward P. Alexander and Mary Alexander --
reviewed by Suzanne M. Fischer

Return to Alexandria: An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage, Revivalism,
and Museum Memory by Beverley Butler -- reviewed by Tiffany Jenkins

All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850 - 1950 by
Robert E. Kohler -- reviewed by Charlotte M. Porter

Archive

Earliest known photographic portraits of Charles Darwin and Abraham
Lincoln, celebrating the bicentennial of their births on February 9,
2009

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