19th century American museums
19th century global trade
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American maritime history
American museum objects
art and artifact interpretation
Asian art in early America
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collecting and American identity
collecting as exploration
collecting foreign objects
collecting global art
early American collecting practices
early American collectors
early American cultural politics
early American exhibitions
early American studies
East India Marine Society
East India trade routes
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ethnographic collections in museums
exhibitions and nationalism
first American museum collections
global artifacts in U.S. museums
global history and museums
global museum collections
historical exhibition practices
history of collecting book
history of museum collecting
history of U.S. museums
maritime collecting institutions
maritime museum origins
museum curation history
museum curation research
museum history scholars
museum interpretation history
museum studies book
museums and civic education
museums and national identity
natural history collections
Peabody Essex Museum history
Peabody Essex Museum origins
pre-Civil War museums
public education through museums
Salem global trade museum
Salem Massachusetts museum
Salem trade history
shaping identity through artifacts
U.S. cultural identity formation
U.S. museum history
Product details
- ISBN 9781625344724
- Weight: 372g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jan 2020
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The East India Marine Society Museum was one of the most influential collecting institutions in nineteenth-century America. From 1799 to 1867, when Salem, MassachuSetts, was a premier American port and launching pad for international trade, the museum's collection developed at a nexus of global exchange, with donations of artwork, crafts, and flora and fauna pouring in from distant ports of call. At a time when the country was filled with Barnum-esque exhibitions, visitors to this museum could circumnavigate the globe and gain an understanding of the world and their place within it.
Collecting the Globe presents the first in-depth exploration of the East India Marine Society Museum, the precursor to the internationally acclaimed Peabody Essex Museum. Offering fresh perspectives on museums in the United States before the Civil War and how they helped shape an American identity, George H. Schwartz explores the practices of collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting a diversity of international objects and art in the early United States.
George H. Schwartz is curatorial scholar at the Peabody Essex Museum and teaches in Tufts University's program in museum studies.
