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This is quite a lot of research to be asking the museum community to do,
Professor Hugh Genoways. Perhaps some volumes on the history of museums sit
in the U of Nebraska library.
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Hugh Genoways
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 1:44 PM
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Subject: Questions
Dear Colleagues
Questions about History of Museums
We all have heard of Peale's museum in Philadelphia, the Charleston
Museum, Silliman's mineralogy collection at Yale, Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia, and a little later P. T Barnum's and Moses
Kimball's proprietary museums in New York and Boston, but I have some
questions about the early history of other museums and types of museums
in the United States.
What was the first art museum in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating art museum in the U. S. that is still
open?
What was the first history museum in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating history museum in the U. S. that is still
open?
What was the first state historical society in the U. S.?
What was the first historic house museum in the U. S.? (Not the oldest
house that is now a museum, but the first to be operated as a museum)
What is the longest operating historic house museum in the U. S. that
is still open?
What was the first specialty museum in the U. S.? What was its
specialty?
What is the longest operating specialty museum in the U. S. that is
still open? What was its specialty?
What was the first sports museum in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating sport museum in the U. S. that is still
open?
What was the first living history museum in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating living history museum in the U. S. that
is still open?
What was the first botanical garden in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating botanical garden in the U. S. that is
still open?
What was the first arboretum in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating arboretum in the U. S. that is still open?
What was the first zoological garden in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating zoological garden in the U. S. that is
still open?
What was the first anthropology/archaeology museum in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating anthropology/archaeology museum in the U.
S. that is still open?
What was the first military museum in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating military museum in the U. S. that is
still open?
What was the first "hall of fame" museum in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating "hall of fame" museum in the U. S. that
is still open?
What was the first college/university museum in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating college/university museum in the U. S.
that is still open?
What was the first mineralogy museum in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating mineralogy museum in the U. S. that is
still open?
What was the first natural history museum in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating natural history museum in the U. S. that
is still open?
What was the first transportation museum in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating transportation museum in the U. S. that
is still open?
What was the first medical museum in the U. S.?
What is the longest operating medical museum in the U. S. that is still
open?
I am not certain what the person with the most correct answers will
receive, but it definitely will be something special!
Actually, I ask these questions because I don't know the answers to
most of them. It seems surprising to me that a profession that is so
much involved with history doesn't know much about its own history. Or
maybe I am the one that doesn't know these things.
Sincerely,
Hugh
Hugh H. Genoways
Professor
W436 Nebraska Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0514
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