Palaces for the People: A Social History of the American Art Museum 

Nathaniel Burt

• Title

  Palaces for the People: A Social History of the American Art Museum 

• Date 1977
• ISBN 9780316117852
• Publisher Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co.
• Description 446 p; 10 in; b/w ill
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection
• Summary

  Examines the rise of the art museum in America, as well as the people behind them (including Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Perry Rathbone, Thomas Hoving, and others) (Mullen Books). 

• Tags Art history, Museum studies