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  • america s first circulating museum the object collection of the Library Company of philadelphia
    Museum history journal, 2017
    Co-Authors: Maria Zytaruk
    Abstract:

    ABSTRACTThe Library Company of Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731, is known to have held non-book objects. What has gone unnoticed is that the institution’s directors circulated those objects to Library Company members, thus extending the principles of the subscription Library to non-book objects. By exploring the origins and early years of what was, in effect, America’s first circulating museum, this study argues that the Library Company’s non-book collection functioned as a means of facilitating self-improvement and social refinement for colonial Americans.

  • America’s first circulating museum: The object collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia
    Museum history journal, 2016
    Co-Authors: Maria Zytaruk
    Abstract:

    ABSTRACTThe Library Company of Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731, is known to have held non-book objects. What has gone unnoticed is that the institution’s directors circulated those objects to Library Company members, thus extending the principles of the subscription Library to non-book objects. By exploring the origins and early years of what was, in effect, America’s first circulating museum, this study argues that the Library Company’s non-book collection functioned as a means of facilitating self-improvement and social refinement for colonial Americans.

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