Description
Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to investigate museums’ shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle profound changes in these exhibitions―and the institutions that housed them―between 1910 and 1990, in the end offering new perspectives at the history of museums, science, and science education.
Rader and Cain provide an explanation for why science and natural history museums started to welcome new audiences between the 1900s and the 1920s and chronicle the turmoil that resulted from the introduction of new forms of biological displays. They describe how these displays of life changed dramatically once again within the 1930s and 1940s, as museums negotiated changing, steadily conflicting interests of scientists, educators, and visitors. The authors then reveal how museum staffs, facing intense public and scientific scrutiny, experimented with wildly different definitions of life science and life science education from the 1950s in the course of the 1980s. The book concludes with a discussion of the influence that corporate sponsorship and blockbuster economics wielded over science and natural history museums within the century’s last decades.
A vivid, entertaining study of the ways science and natural history museums shaped and were shaped by understandings of science and public education within the twentieth-century United States, Life on Display will appeal to historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture, in addition to museum practitioners and general readers.
Rader and Cain provide an explanation for why science and natural history museums started to welcome new audiences between the 1900s and the 1920s and chronicle the turmoil that resulted from the introduction of new forms of biological displays. They describe how these displays of life changed dramatically once again within the 1930s and 1940s, as museums negotiated changing, steadily conflicting interests of scientists, educators, and visitors. The authors then reveal how museum staffs, facing intense public and scientific scrutiny, experimented with wildly different definitions of life science and life science education from the 1950s in the course of the 1980s. The book concludes with a discussion of the influence that corporate sponsorship and blockbuster economics wielded over science and natural history museums within the century’s last decades.
A vivid, entertaining study of the ways science and natural history museums shaped and were shaped by understandings of science and public education within the twentieth-century United States, Life on Display will appeal to historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture, in addition to museum practitioners and general readers.
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