The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum

Download or read book The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum written by Brian J. Young and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum Young elucidates the relationship between museums and communities by examining the nineteenth-century social context of the family who bequeathed their collection to McGill University and the collection's fate in an academic institution. Tracing the museum's history from its founding by David Ross McCord, he emphasizes the centrality of elite women to the culture of the museum and its survival in the twentieth century, the museum's importance as the collective memory of Montreal's English-speaking elite, and the difficulty academic historians have had in dealing with material history.