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Science Museums in Transition
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Carin Berkowitz is the director of the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. She is the author of Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform and of a series of articles on anatomy, images, and objects published in Bu Bernard Lightman is professor of humanities at York University and president of the History of Science Society. Among his most recent publications are the edited collections Global Spencerism: The Communication and Appropriation of a Brit

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Science Museums in Transition blurs distinctions between exhibitions and museums with a deft appreciation of the role of performance and spectacle. It stresses the variability of architecture, function, display, and values across the nineteenth century, and therefore what was regarded as a 'museum' and what might be considered to be 'science.'-- "Sophie Forgan, Captain Cook Memorial Museum"

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