Auteur: Sophie Forgan

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Museums and biographies both tell the stories of lives. This innovative collection examines for the first time biography – of individuals, objects and institutions – in relationship to the museum, …

Essays exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, with worldwide examples and from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Museums and biographies both tell the stories …

How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums.At the close of the nineteenth …