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History of Museums

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1823Histoire de description du Muséum royal d'histoire naturelle, ouvrage rédigé d'après les ordres de l'administration du muséum.
1888Medical museums, with special reference to the Army Medical Museum at Washington. The president's address delivered before the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, September 20, 1888.
1893Centenaire de la fondation de Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893. Volume commemoratif publiée par les professeurs du muséum.
1904Museums: Their history and their use with a bibliography and list of museums in the United Kingdom. 3 vols.
1904​–1912The history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. 3 vols. [Edited by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther.]
1924​–1929A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.
1946The Hunterian Museum yesterday and to-morrow, being the Hunterian Oration for 1945 delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
1964The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Its first century.
1972Temples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums.
1978The shows of London.
1980Mr. Peale's museum: Charles Willson Peale and the first popular museum of natural science and art.
1985The origins of museums: The cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe.
1987Natural science collections in Scotland: Botany, geology, zoology.
1988Collections et collectionneurs dans la France du XVIIe siècle.
1992L'inventario del mondo: Catalogazione della natura e luoghi del sapere nella prima età moderna.
1994Possessing nature: Museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy.
1995Diseases in wax: A history of the medical moulage.
1998Sarah Stone: Natural curiosities from the new worlds
1998The Fool's Tower: The Federal Pathological-Anatomical Museum at the Old General Hospital in Vienna.
1999Les musées de médecine: Histoire, patrimoine et grandes figures de la médecine en France.
2000The world of Auzoux: Models of man and beast in papier-maché.
2001Stuffed animals and pickled heads: The culture and evolution of natural history museums.
2002Cabinets of curiosities.
2003Medicine man: The forgotten medical museum of Henry Wellcome.
2004Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.
2005Nature's museums: Victorian science and the architecture of display.
2006From Wunderkammer to museum.
2007William Hunter and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, 1807-2007.
2009Forces of form. Laurens de Rooy and Hans van den Bogaard (photographs). Compliled and edited by Simon Knepper, Johan Kortenray, Antoon Moorman.
2010Death defied: The anatomy lessons of Frederik Ruysch. Translated by Diane Webb.
2011Morbid curiosities: Medical museums in nineteenth-century Britain.
2011Model experts: Wax anatomies and enlightenment in Florence and Vienna, 1775-1815.
2011Holophusicon: The Leverian Museum, an eighteenth-century English institution of science, curiosity and art.
2013Medical museums: Past, present, future.
2014Joseph Towne at the Gordon Museum.
2015William Hunter's world: The art and science of eighteenth-century collecting.
2015The fate of anatomical collections.
2015Elegant anatomy: The eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections.
2016Anatomy museum: Death and the body displayed.
2017Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.
2017Human anatomy: Stereoscopic images of medical specimens. From the collection of the Vrolik Museum. Photographs by Jim Naughten, text by Laurens de Rooy.
2017Photography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum: Exchanging views of empire.
2017Object lessons and the formation of knowledge: University of Michigan museums, libraries and collections 1817-2017. Edited by Kerstin Barndt and Carla M. Sinopoli.
2018William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum. Edited by Mungo Campbell and Nathan Flis with the assistance of Maria Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui.