The Museum

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Owen Hopkins is an architectural historian and Director of the Farrell Centre at Newcastle University. He was previously Senior Curator of Exhibitions and Education at Sir John Soane's Museum and before that Architecture Programme Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, both in London. He has written six books, including Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon, and Lost Futures, an examination of the disappearing architecture of post-war Britain. He is also a regular commentator on architecture in newspapers, magazines, radio and television.
 

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Museums and galleries are some of the most important institutions around the world, attracting visitors in the millions. Here curator and architectural historian Owen Hopkins celebrates the remarkable history of these cultural spaces, examining what is behind their enduring appeal. This book is one of the first of its kind to document the evolution of museums and galleries from the early cabinets of curiosities established by princely collectors to the global cultural focal points we celebrate today.

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Packed with stunning imagery and featuring the worldâ™s most celebrated cultural institutions, architectural historian and museum curator Owen Hopkins looks at the fascinating history of The Museum.

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PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: THE AGE OF MUSEUMS

1. ORIGINS
2. THE ENLIGHTENMENT MUSEUM
3. THE PUBLIC MUSEUM
4. THE MODERN MUSEUM
5. THE GLOBAL MUSEUM
6. THE MUSEUM NOW
   END NOTES
   INDEX
   FURTHER READING
   PICTURE CREDITS
   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
   North America:
   1.    Smithsonian, Washington DC (mentions of National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of Natural History, the National Zoological Park, the Freer Gallery, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden)
   2.    Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
   3.    American Museum of Natural History
   4.    Frick Museum, NYC
   5.    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
   6.    Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard, Boston
   7.    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
   8.    Guggenheim, NYC
   9.    Carnegie Museums, Pittsburg
   10.    Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, Ohio
   11.    Denver Art Museum
   12.    SFMOMA, San Francisco
   13.    Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
   14.    MOCA, LA
   15.    The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC
   16.    Milwaukee Art Museum
   17.    Figge Art Museum, Iowa
   18.    St Louis Art Museum, Missouri
   19.    de Young Museum in San Francisco
   20.    Anchorage Museum, Alaska
   21.    The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
   22.    Royal Ontario Museum
   23.    Museum National des Beaux Arts, Quebec
   24.    Art Gallery of Ontario
   UK:
   25.    Tate Modern, London
   26.    National Gallery, London
   27.    British Museum, London
   28.    Royal Academy, London
   29.    Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
   30.    Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
   31.    Imperial War Museum, Manchester
   32.    Manchester Art Gallery
   33.    Tate Liverpool
   34.    National Glass Centre, Sunderland
   35.    BALTIC, Newcastle
   36.    New Art Gallery, Walsall
   37.    Turner Contemporary, Margate
   38.    River and Rowing Museum, Henley
   39.    Hepworth, Wakefield
   Europe:
   40.    Le Louvre, Paris, France
   41.    Galerie du Temps, Louvre Lens, France
   42.    Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
   43.    Carré d’Art, Nimes, France
   44.    Musée de Confluences, Lyon, France
   45.    Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
   46.    Prado, Madrid, Spain
   47.    Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid, Spain
   48.    The Uffizi, Florence, Italy
   49.    The Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy
   50.    MAXXI Rome, Italy
   51.    Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography, Rome, Italy
   52.    MUDEC, Milan, Italy
   53.    New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece
   54.    Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
   55.    Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
   56.    Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany
   57.    Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany
   58.    James-Simon-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
   59.    Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
   60.    Abteiberg Museum in Mönchengladbach, Germany
   61.    Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
   62.    Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach, Germany
   63.    Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
   64.    Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
   65.    Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
   66.    The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia
   67.    Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia
   68.    Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland
   69.    Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland
   70.    Groninger Museum, Groningen, Holland
   71.    Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
   72.    Weltmuseum, Vienna, Austria
   73.    Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria
   74.    Heydar Aliyev Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan
   75.    Museum of Natural Sciences of Belgium, Brussels
   76.    Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
   Rest of World:
   77.    Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
   78.    Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil
   79.    Museum of Black Civilisations, Dakar, Senegal
   80.    National Museum of China, Beijing, China
   81.    The Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
   82.    China Art Palace, Shanghai, China
   83.    Guangzhou Opera House, China
   84.    Ordos Museum, Inner Mongolia, China
   85.    Qujing History Museum, YunnanProvince, China
   86.    Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, China
   87.    Changsha Meixihu International Culture and Art Centre, Hunan Province, China
   88.    Nanjing Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing China
   89.    Ningbo History Museum, Zhejiang Province, China
   90.    V&A, Shenzen, China
   91.    West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China
   92.    National Museum of Qatar, Doha
   93.    The Louvre, Abu Dhabi
   94.    Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
   95.    Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongawera, Wellington, New Zealand
   96.    The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
   97.    Tokyo National Museum, Japan
   98.    Chohachi Art Museum, Matsuzaki, Shizuoka, Japan
   99.    Edo-Tokyo Museum, Japan
   100.    Rias Ark Museum of Art, Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan
   101.    Kihoku Astronomical Museum, Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan
   102.    Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Shibuya,…