Reports from the Germanic National Museum. Year 1900

Germanisches Nationalmuseum NürnbergProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Foreign Language Books Culture Medieval ArtMuseum CollectionArchives ArrangementArt History and TheoryDecorative ArtsIllustrated GuideAcademic MonographArtifact ResearchGermanic CultureSocial Observation

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Mitteilungen aus dem Germanischen Nationalmuseum. Jahrgang 1900Author: Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg,Language: German, Class: DD: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Germany, Release Date: May 30, 2015

Editor's review

This is the 1900 volume of the Mitteilungen (Communications) of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, a German-language serial publication on museology and cultural-object research. Its core value lies in preserving early twentieth-century German museum discussions, research notes and scholarly developments, making it primary material for understanding museum organization methods, object-description conventions and the orientation of German cultural-history research of the time. For today's readers it is not a general-interest work but a primary source for reference and comparison: those studying museum history, collection cataloguing, or German scholarly publishing from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century can see concrete recording methods and discursive habits. Reading it requires German proficiency and background knowledge; consult relevant articles with specific questions rather than reading cover to cover. The public-domain electronic edition allows full-text searching and serves as supporting material for academic writing and specialized research.

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Reading tips

  1. Skim the table of contents to identify articles relevant to your topic, then read those closely.
  2. Use the electronic edition's full-text search to look up object names, personal names and institutions.
  3. Note the classification schemes and terminology of the time for comparison with today's museum practice.

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FAQ

Is this Mitteilungen a standalone book or one volume of a serial publication? It is the collected 1900 annual volume of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum's Mitteilungen, one instalment of a serial publication made up of numerous research notes and communications rather than a single continuous-authored work.
Can it be read without German? The original is in older German academic prose and is hard to use directly without German reading ability. If you only want to learn about the museum's history, read modern German or Chinese museum histories instead and use this volume as a primary source for further verification.
Is it suitable for reading cover to cover? Not really. In this kind of annual communications collection the articles are independent and topics scattered; it is better to select articles by table of contents or keyword around a specific research question, since reading straight through easily loses focus.

This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.

About the author

Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg Author · German

The Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, located in Nuremberg, Germany, was founded in 1852 and is a museum centred on collecting artifacts of Germanic culture. As a corporate author, its editing and publishing focus lies in collection-based research and scholarly bulletins; the two works held in the library, Mitteilungen aus dem Germanischen Nationalmuseum. Jahrgang 1900 and Mitteilungen aus dem germanischen Nationalmuseum. Jahrgang 1896, belong to this category of annual bulletins, covering the museum's cataloguing and research on its holdings. As public information is limited, the individual compilers and their biographies cannot be verified; readers may regard these works as scholarly publications issued at the institutional level, offering a glimpse of the museum's collections and research around the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.