Technical Museums and International Exhibitions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4021645 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eugene S Ferguson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 30 |
| Publication date | 1965-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3100950 |
| OpenAlex | W2332272787 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
eighteenth-century cabinets of mechanical models; the idea was enlarged in the nineteenth century fairs and exhibitions of mechanics' institutes; but with few exceptions today's technical museums owe their existence to the international exhibitions of the nineteenth century. The 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, first of the major international exhibitions, was directly responsible for the Victoria and Albert Museum, out of which grew London's Science Museum. The original impetus for Vienna's Technische Museum fiir Industrie und Gewerbe was supplied by the Vienna International Exhibition of 1873.2 The International Centennial Exhibition, in Philadelphia in 1876, made possible the maturing of George Brown Goode's plan for a full-scale United States National Museum in Washington. The Deutsches Museum, in Munich, grew out of the visit of Oskar von Miller, its future founder, to the 1881 International Electrical Exposition in Paris, while he was yet in his twenties.3 The Museum of Science and Industry, in
Art · Exhibition · Visual arts · Museology · Museums and Cultural Heritage
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1985 - 2013 (29) |
| Highly cited | No |