Preface and acknowledgments / Gary D. Rosenberg and Renee M. Clary -- Dedication to Michele La Clergue Aldrich (1942-2016) / Renee M. Clary and Gary D. Rosenberg -- Something to be said for natural history museums / Gary D. Rosenberg and Renee M. Clary. Contemporary natural history museums at the forefront of geoscience literacy and research : Natural history museums: facilitating science literacy across the globe / Jere H. Lipps -- Bridging the two fossil records: paleontology's "big dad" future resides in museum collections / Warren D. Allmon, Gregory P. Dietl, Jonathan R. Hendricks, and Robert M. Ross. HIstorical collections and formative years: foundations for the future : Filippo Buonanni and the Kircher Museum / Ashley J. Inglehart -- All is not lost: history from fossils and catalogues at the Museum of Natural history, University of Florence / Stefano Dominici and Elisabetta Cioppi -- Museum Wormianum: collecting and learning in seventeenth-century Denmark / Lisbet Tarp -- Fossil collections and mapping the Silurian: an example from Scandinavia / John A. Diemer -- Exhibiting life history at the Paris Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle (nineteenth-twenty-first centuries) / Claudine Cohen -- History and importance of the geoscience collections at the Natural History Museum Vienna / Christian Koeberl, Franz Brandstätter, Mathias Harzhauser, and Christa Riedl-Dorn -- Different functions of learning and knowledge - geology takes form: museums in the Habsburg Empire, 1815-1848 / Marianne Klemun -- The museums of Philadelphia / Sally Newcomb -- Carl Akeley's revolution in exhibit design at the Milwaukee Public Museum / Gary David Rosenberg -- Geology and paleontology at the California Academy of Sciences, 1895-2016: a brief overview / Alan E. Leviton and Michele L. Aldrich -- The Rutgers Geology Museum: America's first geology museum and the past 200 years of geoscience education / Lauren Neitzke-Adamo, A.J. Blandford, Julia Criscione, Richard K. Olsson, and Erika Gorder. Twenty-first-century museum history in the making : The role of the Dunn-Seiler Museum, Mississippi State University, in promoting public geoliteracy / Renee M. Clary and Amy Moe-Hoffman -- Twenty-first-century natural history: planetary geology in natural history museums / J.C. Aubele and L.S. Crumpler -- Museums at the intersection of science and citizen: an example from a SIlurian reef / Patricia Coorough Burke and Peter M. Sheehan -- The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: a history of leveraging field expeditions and lab work to enhance public engagement / Dallas C. Evans -- Live science in the "Valley of the Last Dinosaurs": a public window into the world of paleontology / John Hankla, Samantha Sands, Megan Sims, and Jeremy Wyman -- Digitization reveals and remediates challenges to research on dispersed museum collections from Florissant fossil beds, Colorado / Gwen S. Antell -- From public lands to museums: the foundation of U.S. paleontology, the early history of federal public lands and museums, and the developing role of the U.S. Department of the Interior / Gregory A. Liggett, S. Terry Childs, Nicholas A. Famoso, H. Gregory McDonald, Alan L. Titus, Elizabeth Varner, and Cameron L. Liggett -- Museums, paleontology, and a biodiversity science-based approach / Bruce S. Liberman and Julien Kimmig.
Summary:
"Natural history museums have progressively improved public engagement through immersive exhibits, participation in field expeditions, and research using museum holdings. This volume samples the story of museum development and illustrates that the historical successes of natural history museums have positioned them to be preeminent facilitators of science literacy well into the future"-- Provided by publisher. Information on museum activities around the world.
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