Titlebook: Science for the Nation; Perspectives on the Peter J. T. Morris (Principal Curator and Head of Book 2010 NMSI 2010 enlightenment.history.M

Vulnerable

Peter J. T. Morris (Principal Curator and Head of

独特性

Introduction,rsary. Frank Greenaway’s account was published in 1951 to coincide with the centenary of the Great Exhibition at Hyde Park.. Only six years later, another volume was produced to celebrate the centenary of the opening of the Science Museum’s ancestor, the South Kensington Museum.. More recently a for

凶猛

刚毅

bleach

轻而薄

,Ambition and Anxiety: The Science Museum, 1950–1983,over five million a year, the South Kensington site expanded substantially, the Museum’s collections grew beyond all recognition, and two new regional centres were successfully launched. But it was a period of considerable anxiety as well as achievement. Each Director of the Museum had to cope with

折磨

slipped-disk

Blood-Clot

,‘A Worthy and Suitable House’: The Science Museum Buildings and the Temporality of Space,ose to project to our world, and they are our time machines: our culture preserved and thrown forward to some temporally distant other place. Even before the Science Museum as we know it today was built, the symbolic value of the South Kensington museums was strongly articulated; the role of the mus

Brocas-Area

,Beyond the Children’s Gallery: The Influence of Children on the Development of the Science Museum,all visitors were children, in 1951 40 per cent, and by 1999 the percentage of visitors under the age of sixteen had risen to 48 per cent.. The Museum usually considers these large child audiences in terms of the provision of special galleries. The Children’s Gallery opened in 1931, closing in 1995,