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Hidden Treasures - What Museums Can't Or Won't Show You (Paperback)
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Hidden Treasures - What Museums Can't Or Won't Show You (Paperback)
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Loot Price R498
Discovery Miles 4 980
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While there are more than 15,000 museums in our country, visitors
get to see only about five percent of any institution's
collections. Most museums simply don't have room to display
everything they've got. However, there are a wide variety of
surprising and intriguing reasons that, for example, the
Smithsonian Institution doesn't display its collection of condoms,
Florida's Lightner Museum locks up all but one of its shrunken
heads, and a world-class stash of Japanese erotica (shunga) art was
kept in the Honolulu Museum of Art's storage until only recently.
Each item or collection included in this volume is described and
placed in context with stories and interviews that explore the
historical, social, cultural, political, environmental, or other
circumstances that led to keeping that object or group of objects
out of public view--the ultimate museum buff's voyeuristic
experience. Color photographs of the artifacts are included.
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