Dry storeroom no. 1 : the secret life of the Natural History Museum
Richard A. Fortey (Author)
In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Fortey acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that fill London's Natural History Museum. And with the museum's hallways and collection rooms providing a dazzling framework, Fortey offers an often eye-opening social history of the scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.--From publisher description
History
1 online resource (335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
9780307269409, 030726940X
430043193
Print version:
Behind the galleries
The naming of names
Old worlds
Animalia
Theatre of plants
Multum in parvo
Museum rocks
Noah's Ark in Kensington
House of the Muses