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Conn's study includes familiar places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Academy of Natural Sciences, but he also draws attention to forgotten ones, like the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, once the repository for objects from many turn-of-the-century world's fairs. What emerges from Conn's analysis is that museums of all kinds shared a belief that knowledge resided in the objects themselves. Using what Conn has termed "object-based epistemology," museums of the late nineteenth century were on the cutting edge of American intellectual life. By the first quarter of the twentieth century, however, museums had largely been replaced by research-oriented universities as places where new knowledge was produced. According to Conn, not only did this mean a change in the way knowledge was conceived, but also, and perhaps more importantly, who would have access to it.
During the last half of the nineteenth century, many of the country's most celebrated museums were built. In this original and daring study, Steven Conn argues that Americans, endowed with the belief that knowledge resided in objects themselves, built these institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the world's knowledge. Conn discovers how museums gave definition to different bodies of knowledge and how these various museums helped to shape America's intellectual history.
"Conn is an enthusiastic advocate for his subject, an appealing thinker, an imaginative researcher, a scholar at ease with theory and with empirical evidence." —Ann Fabian, Reviews in American History
"Steven Conn's masterly study of late-nineteenth century American museums transports the reader to a strange and wonderful intellectual universe. . . . At the end of the day, Conn reminds us, objects still have the power to fascinate, attract, evoke, and, in the right context, explain." —Christopher Clarke-Hazlett, Journal of American History
"Conn is an enthusiastic advocate for his subject, an appealing thinker, an imaginative researcher, a scholar at ease with theory and with empirical evidence." —Ann Fabian, Reviews in American History
"Steven Conn's masterly study of late-nineteenth century American museums transports the reader to a strange and wonderful intellectual universe. . . . At the end of the day, Conn reminds us, objects still have the power to fascinate, attract, evoke, and, in the right context, explain." —Christopher Clarke-Hazlett, Journal of American History
Card catalog description
Conn's study includes familiar places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Academy of Natural Sciences, but he also draws attention to forgotten ones, like the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, once the repository for objects from many turn-of-the-century world's fairs. What emerges from Conn's analysis is that museums of all kinds shared a belief that knowledge resided in the objects themselves. Using what Conn has termed "object-based epistemology," museums of the late nineteenth century were on the cutting edge of American intellectual life. By the first quarter of the twentieth century, however, museums had largely been replaced by research-oriented universities as places where new knowledge was produced. According to Conn, not only did this mean a change in the way knowledge was conceived, but also, and perhaps more importantly, who would have access to it.
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We begin with a visit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
commercial museum, older natural history, museum builders, museum origins, intellectual architecture, anthropological objects, anthropological collections, ethnographic displays, museum objects, museum administration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, South Kensington, Academy of Natural Sciences, University Museum, Field Museum, Pennsylvania Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Memorial Hall, Henry Ford, High Street, George Brown Goode, First World War, Civil War, Greenfield Village, Bureau of Information, Franklin Institute, Henry Mercer, William Pepper, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peale's Museum, Department of Commerce, Franz Boas, Centennial Exposition, Fairmount Park New!
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We begin with a visit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
commercial museum, older natural history, museum builders, museum origins, intellectual architecture, anthropological objects, anthropological collections, ethnographic displays, museum objects, museum administration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, South Kensington, Academy of Natural Sciences, University Museum, Field Museum, Pennsylvania Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Memorial Hall, Henry Ford, High Street, George Brown Goode, First World War, Civil War, Greenfield Village, Bureau of Information, Franklin Institute, Henry Mercer, William Pepper, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peale's Museum, Department of Commerce, Franz Boas, Centennial Exposition, Fairmount Park New!
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