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Author Halbertsma, Ruurd B.

Title Scholars, travellers and trade : the pioneer years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-40 / R.B. Halbertsma.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Early collections of classical art in the Netherlands: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- C.J.C. Reuvens and the archaeological cabinet in Leiden, 1818 -- Collections and conflicts -- The Greek collections of B.E.A. Rottiers -- Jean Emile Humbert: the quest for Carthage -- Station Livorno: the Etruscan and Egyptian collections -- Forum Hadriani: digging behind the dunes -- The ideal museum: dreams and reality -- End of the pioneer years, 1835-40.
Summary Throws new light on the process of creating a national museum, and the difficulties of convincing society of the value of the past.
Note Print version record.
Subject Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden.
Reuvens, Caspar Jacob Christiaan, 1793-1835.
Reuvens, Caspar Jacob Christiaan, 1793-1835. (OCoLC)fst00221821
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden. (OCoLC)fst00540311
Archaeologists -- Netherlands -- Biography.
Netherlands -- History -- 1815-1830.
Netherlands -- History -- 1830-1849.
TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology.
REFERENCE -- General.
Archaeologists. (OCoLC)fst00812929
Netherlands. (OCoLC)fst01204034
Chronological Term 1815-1849
Genre/Form History.
Biography.
Other Form: Print version: Halbertsma, Ruurd B. Scholars, travellers and trade. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003 0415276306 (DLC) 2003043147 (OCoLC)51817531
ISBN 0203634543 (electronic bk.)
9780203634547 (electronic bk.)
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