Museums matter : in praise of the encyclopedic museum /
The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society's growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. But in recent years, museums have been...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2011
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| Series: | Rice University Campbell lectures
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