The Genesis of the United States National Museum
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PrintTraces planning for a National Museum beginning with the National Institution for the Promotion of Science, the linking of this idea to legislation establishing the Smithsonian Institution, the ambivalence of the first Secretary Joseph Henry towards the museum concept, and the role of second Secretary Spencer Fullerton Baird in creating the United States National Museum.
Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography
Reprinted in the Annual Report of the United States National Museum for 1897, part 2 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1901), 83-192.
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891, Part II, Annual Report of the United States National Museum for 1891 (Book)
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1892
pp. 273-380