The sacred grove : essays on museums / Dillon Ripley.

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Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001.

Title & Author:

The sacred grove : essays on museums / Dillon Ripley.

Publication:

Description:

159 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Preview: The Collecting Instinct -- A Knock at the Door of the Muses -- A Glance at the Nineteenth Century -- The Smithsonian in the Nineteenth Century: A Microcosm of Museum Problems -- Museums in the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- Museums of Today -- Museums and the Future -- Museums and the Future 2: How Many Table Leaves? -- Museums and the Future 3: Art Fiddles While Rome Burns -- Some Impressions of My Own -- Postlude -- Notes.

ISBN:

0874748097 (pbk.)
9780874748093 (pbk.)

Subject:

Museums.
Musées.
museums (institutions)
Museums Addresses, essays, lectures

Holdings:

Location: Library main 9667
Call No.: ID:85-B5718
Status: Available

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