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Hidden Treasures: What Museums Can't Or Won't Show You, First Edition
Harriet Baskas
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Description for Hidden Treasures: What Museums Can't Or Won't Show You, First Edition
paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GBC; HBJK; WC; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 192 x 10. Weight in Grams: 464.
While there are more than 15,000 museums in our country, visitors get to see only about five percent of any institution's collections. Most museums simply don't have room to display everything they've got. However, there are a wide variety of surprising and intriguing reasons that, for example, the Smithsonian Institution doesn't display its collection of condoms, Florida's Lightner Museum locks up all but one of its shrunken heads, and a world-class stash of Japanese erotica (shunga) art was kept in the Honolulu Museum of Art's storage until only recently. Each item or collection included in this volume is described ... Read more
While there are more than 15,000 museums in our country, visitors get to see only about five percent of any institution's collections. Most museums simply don't have room to display everything they've got. However, there are a wide variety of surprising and intriguing reasons that, for example, the Smithsonian Institution doesn't display its collection of condoms, Florida's Lightner Museum locks up all but one of its shrunken heads, and a world-class stash of Japanese erotica (shunga) art was kept in the Honolulu Museum of Art's storage until only recently. Each item or collection included in this volume is described ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Globe Pequot United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Old Saybrook, United States
ISBN
9780762780471
SKU
V9780762780471
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About Harriet Baskas
Harriet Baskas is an award-winning radio producer with a Masters in Communication from the University of Washington. Her radio series include Henrietta's Holiday: Portraits of Unusual Museums and the Hidden Treasures Radio Project. Both 26-part series explored museum collections around the country and were featured on National Public Radio and various national radio programs. She also maintains the StuckatTheAirport.com website ... Read more
Reviews for Hidden Treasures: What Museums Can't Or Won't Show You, First Edition
"One of the great myths of the museum world is that we should perpetually strive to put as much of our collections on show for as long as we can. My sense instead is that one of the most important roles of the museum is precisely the opposite: namely to keep safe material that is off display and at rest, ... Read more