History and Philosophy of Museums

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Detailed Bibliography by Course Topic
Coleman, Laura-Edythe. S.

Week 1—What is a Museum

Alexander, E.P., & Alexander, M. (2008). Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and
Functions of Museums. New York, NY: Altamira Press. [Chapter 1: What is a Museum, pp. 1-19]

Dillenburg, E. (2011). “What if Anything, Is a Museum?” Exhibitionist (Spring), 8- 13.

Genoways, H.H. and Andrei, M.A. (2008). “Museum Origins.” In H.H. Genoways and M.A.
Andrei, (Eds.) Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy (pp. 13-39).
Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.

Godkin, E.L. (2008). “A word about Museums.” In H.H. Genoways and M.A. Andrei, (Eds.)
Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy (pp. 33-38). Walnut Creek:
Left Coast Press.

Gurian, E. H. (2006). Civilizing the Museum: The collected writings of Elaine Heumann
Gurian. New York: Routledge. [Chapter 5: Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about
museum definitions, pp. 48-56].

Hooper-Greenhill, E. (1992). Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge. London: Routledge.

[Chapter 1: What Is a Museum?, pp.1-22]

Low, T. (2004). “What Is a Museum?” In G. Anderson (Ed.) Reinventing the Museum: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift (pp. 30-43). Oxford: Alta Mira Press.

Winchell, N.H. (2008). “Museums and Their Purpose” In H.H. Genoways and M.A. Andrei, (Eds.)
Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy (pp. 269-274). Walnut Creek:
Left Coast Press.

Recommended, Not Required:

Bennett, T. (1995). The Birth of the Museums: history, theory, politics. New York, NY:
Routledge. [Chapter 1: The Formation of the Museum pp.17-58]
Lesson 1—European Museums

Week 2

Chicone, S. and Kissel, R. (2014). Dinosaurs and Dioramas: Creating Natural History Exhibitions.
Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press. [Chapter 1: A Brief History of Natural History Museums pp.15-
24]

Findlen, P. (2012) “The Museum: Its Classical Etymology and Renaissance Genealogy.” In B.M.
Carbonell (Ed) Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts (23-45). London: Blackwell Publishing.

Hagan, H.A. (2008) “The History of the Origin and Development of Museums.” In H.H. Genoways
and M.A. Andrei, (Eds.) Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy (pp.
39-48). Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.

Hooper-Greenhill, E. (1992). Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge. London: Routledge.

[Chapter 2: The First Museum of Europe? pp.23-46]

Krefft, G. (2008) The Improvements Effected in Modern Museums of Europe and Australia.”
In H.H. Genoways and M.A. Andrei, (Eds.) Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History
and Philosophy (pp. 209-216). Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.
Perziosi, D. (2006) “Art History and Museology: Rendering the Visible Legible.” In S. Macdonald (Ed.) A
Companion to Museum Studies (pp. 50-63). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Week 3:

Classen, C. (2007) “Museum Manners: The Sensory Life of the Early Museum.” Journal of Social
History, (40.4), 895-914.

(England) Abt, J. (2011). “The Origins of the Public Museum.” In S. Macdonald (Ed.) A Companion
to Museum Studies (pp.115-134). Malden, M.A.: Wiley-Blackwell.

Alexander, E.P (1983). Museum Masters: Their Museums and Their Influence. Walnut Creek,CA:
Altamira Press. [Chapter 1: Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum: From Collection of Curiosities
to National Treasure. pp. 19-42]

(France) Alexander, E.P (1995). Museum Masters: Their Museums and Their Influence. CA:
Altamira Press. [Chapter 4: Dominique Vivant Denon and the Louvre of Napoleon: The Art
Museum as Symbol of National Glory. pp. 79-112]

(Germany) Alexander, E.P (1995). Museum Masters: Their Museums and Their Influence. CA:
Altamira Press. [Chapter 8: Wilhelm Bode and Berlin’s Museum Island: The Museum of World
Art. pp. 341-376]

Alexander, E.P (1995). Museum Masters: Their Museums and Their Influence. CA: Altamira
Press. [Chapter 12: Oskar von Miller and the Deutsches Museum: The Museum of Science and
Technology pp. 341-376]
 Lesson 2—American Museums

Week 4:
Alexander, E. (1997) “Toward a Definition of the American Museum.” In The Museum in
America: Innovators and Pioneers (pp.13-18). Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Orosz, J. (2010). Curators and Culture: The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870. Tuscaloosa,
AL: The University of Alabama Press. Retrieved October 2, 2012, from Project MUSE database.
[Chapter 1 and 2 pp. 11-42]

Conn, S. (1998) Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926. University of Chicago
Press: Chicago Chapter 1: "Museums and the Late Victorian World" page 3-31.

Dana, J.C. (2004) “The Gloom of the Museum” In Reinventing the Museum: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift, Gail Anderson (ed.) pp. 13-29

Hart, S. and DC Ward (1988) "The Waning of an Enlightenment Ideal: Charles Willson Peale's
Philadelphia Museum, 1790-1820." Journal of the Early Republic. 8(4): 389-418

Goode, G.B. (1888) "Museum-history and museums of history." New York, NY: The Knickerbocker
Press.

Rydell, R.W. (2006) “World Fairs and Museums.” In Sharon Macdonald (Ed.), A
Companion to Museum Studies (pp. 135-151). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Recommended (not required)

Alexander, E.P, (1995) “Chapter 3, Charles Wilson Peale and His Philadelphia Museum: The
Concept of a Popular Museum.” In Museum Masters: Their Museums and Their Influence (pp.43-
78). Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Peale, C.W.(2008) “My Design in Forming this Museum.” In H.H. Genoways and M.A. Andrei, (eds.).
Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy (pp.23-28).Walnut Creek, CA:
Left Coast Press.
Week 5:
Alexander, E. (1997) “Henry Fairfield Osborn: Develops a Model Natural History Museum.” In
The Museum in America: Innovators and Pioneers (pp. 13-18). Walnut Creek, CA.: Altamira Press.

Betts, J.R., “P. T. Barnum and the Popularization of Natural History,” Journal of the History of Ideas,
Vol. 20, No. 3 (June - September 1959), 353-368.

Kohlstedt, S.G. (2013) "Innovative Niche Scientists: Women's Role.” In Reframing North
American Museums, 1880-1930." Centaurus, 55, 153-174. doi 10.1111/1600-0498.12017

Radar K. and V. Cain (2008) "From natural history to science: display and the transformation of
American museums of science and nature." Museum and Society 6(2) 152-171.

Risnicoff de Gorgas, M. (2012) “Reality as Illusion, the Historic Houses that Become
museums.” In Bettina Messias Carbonell (ed) Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts,
(pp.324-328) London: Wiley-Blackwell.

DiMaggio, P. (2012) “Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Part II:

The Classification and Framing of American Art.” In Bettina Messias Carbonell (Ed)
Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts, (pp.425-441) London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Recommended (not required)

Alexander, E. (1997) “William Sumner Appleton: Preserves Important Sites Throughout New
England.” In The Museum in America: Innovators and Pioneers. Altamira Press: Walnut Creek,
CA. p.101-116 (Natural History)

Brinkman, P.D. (2010) The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America
at the turn of the twentieth century. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. [Chapter 1: Scientist
Wage Bitter Warfare pp. 7-26]

Pryor, S. A. (2008) “The Mount Vernon Association.” In H.H. Genoways and M.A. Andrei,
(Eds.) Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy (pp.29-32). Walnut
Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Lesson 3—Asia
Week 6:

(Korea)

Choi, S. (2011) “Re-Thinking Korean Cultural identities at the National Museum of Korea.” In Knell,
S., et al. (Eds.) National Museums: New Studies from Around the World Routledge (pp. 290-301).
London: Routledge.

Kim, H. (1998) “Removing the Legacy of the Korean Past.” Curator (41.3) 178-186.

Lee, J.J. (2011) “The National Museum as Palimpsest: Postcolonial politics and the National Museum of
Korea.” In Knell, S., et al. (Eds.) National Museums: New Studies from Around the World Routledge (pp.
373-385). London: Routledge.

(Japan)

Japanese Association of Museums. (2008). Present Status of Museum in Japan. Ministry of

Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan. Retrieved from
http://www.mext.go.jp/component/a_menu/education/detail/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2012/03/27/
1312941_1.pdf.

Konishi, M. (1987) “The Museum and Japanese Studies.” Current Anthropology.

(28.4) 96-101.

Tsuruta, S. (1959) “Museums in Japan.” Curator (2.3) 197-211.

Yamaguchi, M. (1991) “The Poetics of Exhibition in Japanese Culture.” In Karp, I. and Lavine,
S., (Eds.) Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display (pp.56-67).
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Week 7

(China)

Carrier, D. (2009) “Some Museums in China, Macau, and Taiwan.” Curator (52.4) 375-384.

Hamlish, T. (2000) “Global Culture, Modern Heritage. Remembering the Chinese Imperial Collection.”
In Crane, S. (Ed) Museums and Memory (pp. 137-158) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Ryckmans, P. (1989) “The Chinese Attitude Toward the Past” In Lavin, I. (ed) World Art, Themes of
Unity and Diversity, Acts of the 26th International Congress of the History of Art, (3) 809-812.
Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press

Shouyong, P. (2012) “The Social Benefits of Heritage and Chinese Ethnic Minorities.” Museum
International. (63. 1-2) 43-54.

Yim, S. (2005) “Globalization and the Development of Museums in China.” Curator

(48.1) 27-29.

Varutti, M. (2011) “The aesthetics and narratives of national Museums in China.” In Knell, S. et. All
(Eds) National Museums: New Studies from Around the World (pp. 302-312). London: Routledge.
Wan-Chen, C. (2012) “A Cross-cultural perspective on musealization: the museum’s
reception by China and Japan in the second half of the nineteenth century.” Museum and
Society (10.1) 15-27.

Xiangguang, S. (2008) “The Development of Private Museums in China.” Museum

International (60. 1-2) 40-48.
Lesson 4— India and the Middle East

Week 8:

(India)

Jain, J. (2011). “Museum and Museum-Like Structures: The Politics of Exhibition and
Nationalism in India.” Exhibitionist (Spring), 50-55.

Madhuparna, R. (2011) “’Locality, Province and the Nation’: The Museum Story in
India.” Calcutta Historical Journal (291-2) 7.

Sarma, I.K. (1998) “Archaeological site museums in India: the backbone of cultural
education.” Museum International (50.2) 44-49.

Sharma, P.K. and Burdhan, S. (2010). The Arena of Indian Museums. New Delhi: Museums
Association of India.

Sugata, R. (2014). Colonial Frames, “Native” Claims: The Jaipur Economic and
Industrial Museum.” Art Bulletin. (96.2) 196-212.

Week 9:

(Middle

East)

Badre, L. (2010). “Private Archaeological Museums in Lebanon.” Near Eastern

Archaeology. (73.2-3) 189-194.

Exell, K and Rico, T., (2013) ‘There is no heritage in Qatar’: Orientalism, colonialism and other
problematic histories.” World Archaeology. (45.4) 670-685.

Fibiger, T. (2011). “Global Display—Local Dismay. Debating “Globalized Heritage” in

Bahrain. History and Anthropology. (22.2) 187-202. DOI:
10.1080/02757206.2011.558582

Wakefield, S. (2015). “Museum Development in the Gulf: Narrative and Architecture.”

Architectural Design. (85.1) 20-27.
Lesson 5—Colonial/ Post-Colonial Museums

Weeks 10/11:
(General)
Bennett, T. (1995). The Birth of the Museums: history, theory, politics. Routledge: New York,
NY [Chapter 5: Out of Which Past? pp. 128-162]

Curtis, N.G. (2012) “Universal Museums, Museum Objects and Repatriation: The Tangled
Stories of Things.” In Carbonell, B.M. (Ed) Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts,
(pp.73-81). London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Kreps, C. (2006) “Non-Western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural

Perspective.” In A Companion to Museum Studies. Sharon Macdonald (ed.) Blackwell, MA
pp.457-472

Mathur, S. (2005) “Museums and Globalization,” Anthropological Quarterly, v.78(3), pp.

697-708. Ray, S. (2014). “Colonial Frames, “Native” Claims: The Jaipur Economic and
Industrial Museum.”
Art Bulletin, 96, 2, 196-212.

Simpson, M. (2007). “Charting the boundaries: Indigenous models and parallel practices in
the development of the post- museum.” In Knell, S, et al. (Eds.), Museum Revolutions: how
museums change and are changed (pp.235-249). London/New York: Routledge.

(Africa)

Farah, I. (2006). “The National Museums of Kenya: Achievements and Challenges.”

Museum International. (58.1-2) 19-28.

McGee, J.L. (2006) “Restructuring South African Museums: Reality and Rhetoric Within
Cape Town.” In Marstine, J. (Ed.) New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction
(pp.179-200) Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

McLeod, M. (2012) “Museums without Collections: Museum Philosophy in West Africa.”

In Carbonell, B.M. (Ed) Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts, (pp.473-477).
London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Ndoro, W. and Pwiti, G. (2005) “Heritage Management in southern Africa: local, national
and international discourse.” In Corsane, G. (Ed.) Heritage, Museums and Galleries: An
Introductory Reader (pp.154-168). London: Routlegdge.

Tegomoh, E. (2007) 'Cultural Entrepreneurs, Sacred Objects and the Living Museums of
Africa'. In Knell, S, et al. (Eds.), Museum Revolutions: how museums change and are
changed (pp.228-234). London/New York: Routledge.
Kreps, C. (2006) “Non-Western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural
Perspective.” In A Companion to Museum Studies. Sharon Macdonald (ed.) Blackwell, MA
pp.457-472

Mathur, S. (2005) “Museums and Globalization,” Anthropological Quarterly, v.78(3), pp.

697-708. Ray, S. (2014). “Colonial Frames, “Native” Claims: The Jaipur Economic and
Industrial Museum.”
Art Bulletin, 96, 2, 196-212.

Simpson, M. (2007). “Charting the boundaries: Indigenous models and parallel practices in
the development of the post- museum.” In Knell, S, et al. (Eds.), Museum Revolutions: how
museums change and are changed (pp.235-249). London/New York: Routledge.

(Oceania)

Mead, S.M. (2012) “Indigenous Models of Museums in Oceania.” In Carbonell, B.M.

(Ed.) Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts, (pp.373-376). London: Wiley-
Blackwell.

McCarthy, C. (2009) “Our Works of Ancient Times”: History, Colonization, and

Agency at the 1906-7 New Zealand International Exhibition.” Museum History
Journal (2.2)

Simpson, M.G. (2006) “Revealing and Concealing: Museums, objects and the Transmission of
Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia.” In New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction. Jane
Marstine, (ed). Blakwell, MA. pp. 153-173

Tapsell, P. (2012) Partnership in Museums: A tribal; Maori Response to Repatriation.” In

Carbonell, B.M. (Ed.) Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts, (pp.575-579). London:
Wiley-Blackwell.
Hakiwai, A.T. (2005) “The search for legitimacy: Museums in Aotearoa, New Zealand—a
Maori viewpoint.”
In Corsane, G. (Ed.) Heritage, Museums and Galleries: An Introductory Reader (pp.169-
178). London: Routledge
(Americas)

Barnes, E. (2008) “Mexico’s National Program of Community Museums: Local Patrimonies in a

Multicultural Mexico.” Museum History Journal (1.2).

Castro, L.A.G. (2005) “Museums, Knowledge and Cultural Diversity in Venezuela.”

Museum International (57.3) 60-69.

McMaster, G. (2012) “Museums and the Native Voice.” In Carbonell, B.M. (Ed.)
Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts, (pp.377-382). London: Wiley-Blackwell

Nash, S. and Colwell-Chamthaphnh, C. (2010) “NAGPRA After Two Decades.” Museum

Anthropology (33.2) 99-104.

Walker, W. S. (2008) “John C. Ewers and the Problem of Cultural History: Displaying
American Indians at the Smithsonian in the Fifties.” Museum History Journal (1.1)
Lesson 6— Post Modernism & The New Museology

Weeks 12/13/14

Anderson, Gail, (2004) “Introduction: Reinventing the Museum,” In G. Anderson (Ed.)

Reinventing the Museum: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift
(pp. 1-7). Oxford: Alta Mira Press.

Dana, J. (1999) “In A Changing World, Should Museums Change?” In Peniston, W.

(Ed.) The New Museum: Selected Writings by John Cotton Dana, Peniston (pp. 128-
132-144) Washington, DC: American Association of Museums.

Dana, J. (1999) “Should Museums Be Useful In Peniston, W. (Ed.) The New Museum:
Selected Writings by John Cotton Dana, Peniston (pp. 133-144) Washington, DC:
American Association of Museums.

Halpin, M.M. (1997) “Play it again, Sam’: reflections on a new museology.” Museum
International (49.2) 52-56.

Keene, S. (2006). All that is solid? – Museums and the postmodern. Public Archaeology
(5.3),185- 98.

Marstine, J. (2006) “Introduction.” In Marstine, J. (Ed.) New Museum Theory and Practice:
An Introduction (pp.1-36) Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Mason, R. (2006) “Cultural Theory and Museum Studies.” In Sharon Macdonald (Ed.), A
Companion to Museum Studies (pp. 17-32). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Mathur, S. (2012) “Museums and Globalization.” In Carbonell, B.M. (Ed.) Museum

Studies: An Anthology of Contexts, (pp.510-516). London: Wiley-Blackwell

Nielsen, J.K. (2015) “The relevant museum: defining relevance in museological practices.”
Museum Management and Curatorship (30.5) 364-378.
Prior, N. (2006) “Postmodern Restructurings.” In Sharon Macdonald (Ed.), A Companion to
Museum Studies (pp. 509-524). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Shelton, A. (2013). “Critical Museology: A Manifesto.” Museum Worlds: Advances in
Research, (1) 7-23. doi:10.3167/armw.2013.010102

Vergo, P. (1989) “Introduction.” In P. Vergo (Ed.) The New Museology .England: Reaktion
Books.

Weil, Stephen E. (2004) “Rethinking the Museum: An Emerging New Paradigm,” In

Anderson, G. (Ed.) Reinventing the Museum: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on
the Paradigm Shift (pp. 74-79). Oxford: Alta Mira Press.
Lesson 7— The Past, Present, and Future of Museums: Reflection

Week 15:

Crane, S. (2012) “Memory, Distortion, and History in the Museum.” In Carbonell, B.M. (Ed.)
Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts, (pp.303-316). London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Davidson, P. (2005) “Museums and the re-shaping of memory.” In Corsane, G. (Ed.)

Heritage, Museums and Galleries: An Introductory Reader(pp.202-214) London:
Routledge.

Gwyn, M. (2012) “Memorialisation and Trauma: Britain and the Slave Trade.”
Museum International. (63.1-2) 79-90.

Janes, R. R. (2007). Museums, social responsibility and the future we desire.

In Museum Revolutions (pp. 160-172). London: Routledge.

Janes, R. (2011) "Commentary: Museums and the New Reality." Museums & Social
Issues. (6.2) 137-146.

Lakshmi, R. (2012) “Curating a Bhopal People’s Movement: An Opportunity for

Indian Museums.” Curator v. 55 (1) 35-50.

Linenthal, E.T. (1994) “The Boundaries of Memory: The United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum,” American Quarterly. (46.3) 406-433.

Weil, S. (2002) Making Museums Matter. The Smithsonian Institute: Washington, DC [Chapter
3: From Being About Something to Being For Somebody: The Ongoing Transformation of the
American Museum pp. 28-52]

Williams, P. (2012) “The Memorial Museum Identity Complex: Victimhood, Culpability, and
responsibility.” In Carbonell, B.M. (Ed.) Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts, (pp.97-
105). London: Wiley-Blackwell

(Heritage

Lumley, R. (2005) “The debate on heritage reviewed.” In Corsane, G., (Ed.) Heritage, Museums and
Galleries: An Introductory Reader, (pp.15-27). London: Routledge.

Prentice, R. (2005) “Heritage: A key sector in the ‘new’ tourism.” In Corsane, G., (Ed.) Heritage,
Museums and Galleries: An Introductory Reader, (pp.267-281). London: Routledge.