Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Thomas Hoving
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages448 pages
ISBN
9780671880750
Published
1993
Description
No museum in the world is like the metropolitan museum of art - and no man has ever run it, or revolutionized it, quite like Thomas Hoving. In a decade, hoving changed almost everything people had grown accustomed to fro...No museum in the world is like the metropolitan museum of art - and no man has ever run it, or revolutionized it, quite like Thomas Hoving. In a decade, hoving changed almost everything people had grown accustomed to from the met, shaking the institution out of royal repose and transforming it into the most vital cultural presence in the country.