Author: RASMUSSEN, CAROLYN.
Title: A Museum For The People. A history of Museum Victoria and its predecessors 1854-2000.
Description: First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. xiv, 423; illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with colour and b/w illustrations throughout; appendix, select bibliography, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. Melbourne; Scribe Publications; 2001. The book offers insights into the riches of the museums' collections, ranging from Aboriginal artefacts to immigrants' keepsakes, from meteorites to fossils, from Australian innovations to rare butterflies and, of course, to the museum's most popular object, the racehorse Phar Lap.
Keywords: Art History Museum Science Victoria Australian General History Local Victoria Melbourne
Title: A Museum For The People. A history of Museum Victoria and its predecessors 1854-2000.
Description: First Edition; Demy 4to; pp. xiv, 423; illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with colour and b/w illustrations throughout; appendix, select bibliography, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. Melbourne; Scribe Publications; 2001. The book offers insights into the riches of the museums' collections, ranging from Aboriginal artefacts to immigrants' keepsakes, from meteorites to fossils, from Australian innovations to rare butterflies and, of course, to the museum's most popular object, the racehorse Phar Lap.
Keywords: Art History Museum Science Victoria Australian General History Local Victoria Melbourne
Price: AUD 40.00 = appr. US$ 27.67 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 125367
- Book number: 125367