First national museum, the: dublin's natural history museum in the mid-nineteenth century
Auteur :
Murphy, Sherra
Éditeur :
Cork University Press
ISBN :
9781782054559
Date de publication :
15 oct. 2021
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Irlande
Dublin's Natural History Museum is a uniquely preserved sliver of the past, an intact example of a nineteenth-century natural science collection. This book is the first detailed exploration of its early history, showing how and why it came into being, and what it meant in nineteenth-century Irish culture.