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

This comprehensive history of museums begins with the origins of collecting in prehistory and traces the evolution of museums from grave goods to treasure trove

Packed with stunning imagery and featuring the world’s most celebrated cultural institutions, architectural historian and museum curator Owen Hopkins looks at

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

In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums,