@book{8798,
  author = {John E. Simmons},
  title = {Museums: A History},
  year = {2016},
  pages = {308 pp.},
  publisher = {Rowman & Littlefield},
  address = {Lanham, MD},
  isbn = {9781442263628},
  note = {<p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>What is a collection? what is a museum? </li><li>Hoards and tombs </li><li>collections in the ancient world (to 700 BCE) The temple of the muses </li><li>the conjunction of objects and knowledge (classical antiquity, 700 BCE to CE 400) The power of objects </li><li>medieval collections (400 to 1400) Of cabinets and kings </li><li>Renaissance collections (1400 to 1600) The museum enlightened </li><li>1600 to 1800 Emergence of the modern museum </li><li>1800 to 1900 Museums in a world gone awry </li><li>1900 to 1970 Learning to read objects (again) </li><li>the post-postmodern museum</li></ul>},
  language = {English},
}