MUSEUM HISTORY JOURNAL
Edited by Hugh H. Genoways and Mary Anne Andrei
January 2010
Vol. 3, No. 1

Table of Contents

From the Editor

Feature Articles
"In Fact, One Cannot See it Without Laughing": The Spectacle of the
Kangaroo in London, 1770 - 1830 -- Christopher Plumb

American Memory on the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Is There Common
Ground in American Museums? -- Phyllis K. Leffler

Reinstalling Mrs. Ward's Corner Cupboard: Narrative and Display in a
Colonial Revival House Museum -- Sarah Anne Carter

The Missionary Exhibit: A Frustration and a Promise for Franz Boas and
the American Museum of Natural History -- Erin L. Hasinoff

Book Reviews

Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany, by
Lynn Nyhart -- reviewed by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis

Cabinets for the Curious: Looking Back at Early English Museums, by
Ken Arnold -- reviewed by Katy Barrett

Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe, edited by Nicholas Penny
and Eike D. Schmidt -- reviewed by Jessica Boehman

Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos In-Between Worlds, by Claire
Forago and Donna Pierce, with other contributors -- reviewed by Charles
Bennett

Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum Philosophy, edited by Hugh H.
Genoways and Mary Anne Andrei -- reviewed by Carin Jacobs

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