Bøger af Victor J. Danilov

A directory of museums about women, providing information about interpretive themes, historical significance of collections, and cultural and social relevance to women, along with programming events and facility information.

People who are considered ';famous' can be found in many different fields. This book describes 472 museums, historic sites, and memorials about 409 people in 26 categories: Actors Explorers PlaywrightsArchitects First Ladies PoetsArtists/Sculptors Frontiersmen PresidentsAthletes Journalists/Publishers Public Officials/ Author/Writers Medical Innovators Political FiguresAviators/Astronauts Military Figures Religious LeadersBusiness/Industrial/Financial Musicians/Singers/ Scientists/Engineers/Figures Composers InventorsEducators Outlaws Social ActivistsEntertainers Patriotic Figures SocialitesThey include such people as Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, Sinclair Lewis, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Will Rogers, Daniel Boone, Buffalo Bill Cody, William Randolph Hearst, Douglas MacArthur, Robert E. Lee, Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Betsy Ross, Carl Sandburg, Jesse James, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, Billy Graham, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jane Addams, Frederick Douglass, Doris Duke, Helen Keller, Wilbur and Orville Wright, and all the Presidents, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Among the sites of the museums and other tributes are such places as the Katharine Hepburn Museum, Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio, Babe Ruth Museum, Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, Mark Twain House and Museum, Charles A. Lindberg Historic Site, Lincoln Memorial, Morgan Library and Museum, Kit Carson Home and Museum, Clara Barton National Historic Site, Stonewall Jackson's Home, Marian Anderson Residence/Museum and Birthplace, Stephen Foster Memorial Museum, Tennessee Williams Birthplace/Home, Mount Vernon: George Washington's Estate and Gardens, Roger Williams National Memorial, Rachel Carson Homestead, Rosa Parks Library and Museum, and Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. In addition to the chapters and directory, the book includes a geographical guide to the sites, selected bibliography, index, and 29 photographs.

This planning guide describes the different types of corporate museum-like facilities located in the United States and around the world, and provides information for anyone planning, starting up or operating a museum, gallery or visitor centre.

One of the most frequently overlooked areas of the museum world are those museums and museum-like facilities that are part of manufacturing and other types of companies.

Overall, the museums detailed here represent a cross-section of the rapidly expanding science museum field, and they illustrate why science museums have become so popular and instrumental in furthering science literacy across the U.S. The book's twelve sections focus on aquariums, marine museums, and marine-life parks;

The first comprehensive overview of hall of fame museums and exhibits, this work traces the history, examines and compares the facilities, exhibits, and operations, and describes 274 halls of fame in over 100 fields in the United States and 10 other countries.

Considered one of the most effective sources of informal science education, hands-on science centers are America's popular types of museums. This book describes the history and nature of the science center movement in the United States and contains descriptions of over 260 museums and sites where the visiting public can interact with the exhibits.

The primary purposes of the volume are to stimulate thinking about museum careers and training, to describe the various museum positions and training programs available, and to provide guidance to those considering or pursuing formal or informal training opportunities.

The early American West has taken on mythic proportions, coming to be regarded as a time and place unlike any other. In this book, Victor J. Danilov examines both the real and mythical history of the trans-Mississippi region from the mid-1800s through the early 1900s.