Books by Marjorie Schwarzer

This book brings the reader up to date on the stories behind the people and events that have transformed America's museums from their beginnings into today's vibrant cultural institutions. Updates include color timelines, material on digital curation, emergent exhibitions about civil rights, immersive museum environments, and more.

Through the decades, museums transformed themselves from cabinets of curiosity to centers of civic pride and prestige and emblems of our shared heritage, good and bad. This title describes the rise of the museum in the United States from the early twentieth century onwards. It is also a story that parallels historic changes in American society.