Table of Contents

Chapter 1 What is a museum?; Chapter 2 The first museum of Europe?; Chapter 3 The palace of the prince; Chapter 4 The irrational cabinet; Chapter 5 The ‘cabinet of the world’; Chapter 6 The Repository of the Royal Society; Chapter 7 The disciplinary museum; Chapter 8 A useful past for the present;

About the Author

Eilean Hooper-Greenhill is Lecturer in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.