Mr. Peale's Museum: Charles Willson Peale & the First Popular Museum of Natural Science

by Charles Coleman Sellers

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Peale's Museum, born of the painter's revolutionary idea that museums should be for everyone--not just for scientists and connoisseurs as had always been the case--was begun in the painter-naturalist's Philadelphia home, and over a seventy-five-year span it grew to include branches in New York City and Baltimore. In its day, Peale's Museum was an institute of learning and science comparable in national prestige to the Smithsonian Institution today...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0393057003

ISBN13:9780393057003

Release Date:February 1980

Publisher:Barra Foundation

Length:370 Pages

Weight:1.95 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"

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