Lost in the Museum Buried Treasures and the Stories They Tell【電子書籍】[ Nancy Moses ]

＜p＞Few beyond the insider realize that museums own millions of objects the public never sees. In ＜em＞Lost in the Museum＜/em＞, Nancy Moses takes the reader behind the “employees only” doors to uncover the stories buried-along with the objects-in the crypts of museums, historical societies, and archives. Moses discovers the actual birds shot, stuffed, and painted by John James Audubon, America's most beloved bird artist; a spear that abolitionist John Brown carried in his quixotic quest to free the slaves; and the skull of a prehistoric Peruvian child who died with scurvy. She takes the reader to Ker-Feal, the secret farmhouse that Albert Barnes of the Barnes Foundation filled with fabulous American antiques and that was then left untouched for more than fifty years.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Weaving the stories of the object, its original owner, and the often idiosyncratic institution where the object resides, the book reveals the darkest secret of the cultural world: the precarious balance of art, cultur．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る