THE FIRST MODERN MUSEUMS OF ART. THE BIRTH OF AN INSTITUTION IN 18TH-AND EARLY -19TH-CENTURY EUROPE. Edited by Carole Paul.

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The volume features chapters on fifteen of the earliest and still major institutions – from the Capitoline Museum in Rome to the British Museum in London to the Musée du Louvre in Paris to the Alte Pinakothek in Munich – the openings of which spanned a century, from 1734 to 1836. Considering a range of issues that remain central to museums today – such as the nature, display, and growth of collections and the roleof art museums in educating the public – these essays reveal the essential characteristics and developmental patterns shared by modern museums of art.