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Editorial.(historic development of and social views toward museums)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
A "Museum" in the American sense of the word means a place of amusement, wherein there shall be a theatre, some wax figures, a giant and a dwarf or two, a jumble of pictures, and a few live snakes. In order that there may be some excuse for the use of the word, there is in most instances a collection of stuffed birds, a few preserved animals, and a stock of oddly assorted and very dubitable curiosities; but the mainstay of the "Museum" is the "live art," that is, the theatrical performance, the precocious manikins, or the intellectual dogs and monkeys.
Edward P. Hingston, The Genial Showman.
Being Reminiscences of the Life of Artemus Ward, 1870
The development of the museum from its emergence in ancient Greece through the proliferation of cabinets of natural and artificial curiosities in the United States in the nineteenth century is a long and fascinating story From the time his museum opened in July 1786 in Philadelphia, Charles Wilson Peale hoped to attract government support to make his a truly national museum. He wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1802 that such an institution would be "more powerful to humanize the mind, promote the harmony and aid virtue, than any other School yet imagined." Peale knew that the great museums of Europe started as private collections and then became state supported, and he expected his own to follow the pattern.
Peale's Museum was one of the first popular museums of natural science and art. It was born of his revolutionary idea that museums should be for everyone, not just the cognoscenti or rich amateurs. Actual specimens were systematically arranged and documented, encouraging research, and fostering the "diffusion of knowledge" by a process known as "rational amusement"--enjoyment while learning. The ...
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