The Genesis of the United States National Museum

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Summary

Traces 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.

Subject

  • Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887
  • Henry, Joseph 1797-1878
  • National Institution for the Promotion of Science
  • United States National Museum

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Notes

Reprinted in the Annual Report of the United States National Museum for 1897, part 2 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1901), 83-192.

Contained within

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891, Part II, Annual Report of the United States National Museum for 1891 (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1892

Topic

  • Law
  • Secretaries
  • SI, Early History
  • National Collections
  • Legislation

Physical description

pp. 273-380

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