Pilgrimages to the museums of the new age: appropriating European industrial museums in New York City (1927–1937)
How did industrial museums cross the Atlantic? When the first American museums of science and industry were created in the 1920s, they looked to Europe in order to import what was seen at that time as a burgeoning cultural institution. In this article, I look at this process of appropriation through...
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Science Museum, London
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Science Museum Group Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/issue-06/pilgrimages-to-the-museums-of-the-new-age/ |