Mermaids, mummies, and mastodons :the emergence of the American museum : [exhibition]
- 其他作者: Alderson, William T. , American Association of Museums. , Baltimore City Life Museums. , Peale Museum.
- 出版: Washington, D.C. : American Association of Museums 1992.
- 稽核項: 104 p. :ill. (some col.) ;23 x 29 cm.
- 標題: Peale family. , Barnum, P. T. , History. , Museums , Museums United States -- History. , Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891.
- ISBN: 0931201152 , 9780931201158
- 附註: "The ... exhibition ran from Dec. 1, 1990 to June 30, 1992 at the Peale Museum in Baltimore"--p. 17. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-99) and index.
- 系統號: 005198281
- 資料類型: 圖書
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A “Feejee mermaid,” the skeletal remains of a “wooly mammoth,” and a “cabinet of learned turkies which will dance to music,” were attractions at Baltimore’s Peale Museum in the early 1800s. As the nation’s first museum directors, Charles Wilson Peale, and his sons Rembrandt and Rubens, laid the foundation of the modern American museum.
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