Lianne McTavish is a professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta.

• Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction The Impossible Museum Chapter One Exchanging Values in the Nineteenth-Century Museum Marketplace Chapter Two Learning to See: Vision, Visuality and Material Culture, 1862-1929 Chapter Three Offering Orientalism: Women and the Gift Economy of the Museum, 1880-1940 Chapter Four Libraries and Museums: Shifting Relationships, 1830-1940 Chapter Five Gendered Professionals: Debating the Ideal Museum Worker during the 1930s and 1940s Conclusions BibliographyIndex

‘Defining the Modern Museum offers a new way to think about museums by emphasizing their interrelationships and relationships with other institutions…This book is recommended for historians of critical museum theory as well as for curators and historians exploring the narratives of their own institutions.’- Paul Robertson (Canadian Historical Review vol 95:03:2014) ‘McTavish’s case study is a welcome addition to the literature on museums and museological theory, and will be of particular interest to scholars and students interested in gender, regional identity, and visual art.’- Davina M. DesRoches (Topia: the Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies vol 35:2016)

Lianne McTavish is a professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta.

• Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction The Impossible Museum Chapter One Exchanging Values in the Nineteenth-Century Museum Marketplace Chapter Two Learning to See: Vision, Visuality and Material Culture, 1862-1929 Chapter Three Offering Orientalism: Women and the Gift Economy of the Museum, 1880-1940 Chapter Four Libraries and Museums: Shifting Relationships, 1830-1940 Chapter Five Gendered Professionals: Debating the Ideal Museum Worker during the 1930s and 1940s Conclusions BibliographyIndex

‘Defining the Modern Museum offers a new way to think about museums by emphasizing their interrelationships and relationships with other institutions…This book is recommended for historians of critical museum theory as well as for curators and historians exploring the narratives of their own institutions.’- Paul Robertson (Canadian Historical Review vol 95:03:2014) ‘McTavish’s case study is a welcome addition to the literature on museums and museological theory, and will be of particular interest to scholars and students interested in gender, regional identity, and visual art.’- Davina M. DesRoches (Topia: the Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies vol 35:2016)

Lianne McTavish is a professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta.

• Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction The Impossible Museum Chapter One Exchanging Values in the Nineteenth-Century Museum Marketplace Chapter Two Learning to See: Vision, Visuality and Material Culture, 1862-1929 Chapter Three Offering Orientalism: Women and the Gift Economy of the Museum, 1880-1940 Chapter Four Libraries and Museums: Shifting Relationships, 1830-1940 Chapter Five Gendered Professionals: Debating the Ideal Museum Worker during the 1930s and 1940s Conclusions BibliographyIndex

‘Defining the Modern Museum offers a new way to think about museums by emphasizing their interrelationships and relationships with other institutions…This book is recommended for historians of critical museum theory as well as for curators and historians exploring the narratives of their own institutions.’- Paul Robertson (Canadian Historical Review vol 95:03:2014) ‘McTavish’s case study is a welcome addition to the literature on museums and museological theory, and will be of particular interest to scholars and students interested in gender, regional identity, and visual art.’- Davina M. DesRoches (Topia: the Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies vol 35:2016)