The Origins of Museums is an extensive account of the first great collections in late sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe. The collections, then called 'ca

Present-day museums are almost as diverse in character as the collections that they contain, yet all are united by a historical thread leading back to a common

A comprehensive account of an extraordinary phenomenon which developed in 16th- and 17th-century Europe - the cabinet of curiosities or Wunderkammer - in which

National Museums and the Origins of Nations provides the first international survey of origins stories in national museums and examines the ways in which such m

The authors of this volume attempt to describe the relationship between history as a field of study and museums as vehicles for the presentation of historical d