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Mermaids, Mummies, and Mastodons: The Emergence of the American Museum
by Alderson, William T
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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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- Jan 1, 1992 Pub Date:
- 0931201152 ISBN-10:
- 9780931201158 ISBN-13:
- English Language
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