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Science 14 July 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5477, p. 252
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5477.252
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MUSEUMS:
Hallowed Halls for Nature

A review by Mary P. Winsor

Nature's Museums Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display
Carla Yanni
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2000. 215 pp. $49.95. ISBN 0-8018-6326-0.

Yanni provides an extensively illustrated account of changing and conflicted roles of the central institutions of Victorian science museums built to house and display the diverse natural world.
The author is at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Victoria College, 73 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7, Canada. E-mail: mwinsor{at}chass.utoronto.ca

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