The History and Educational Legacy of the Manchester Art Museum, 1886-1898

This thesis examines the history of the Manchester Art Museum (Manchester, England), which was founded by Thomas Coglan Horsfall (1841-1932) in 1886. It considers the museum’s permanent collections and its programming from 1886 to 1898 with brief notes on the later years of the institution. While, like previous work on the Manchester Art Museum, the thesis contextualizes the museum within Victorian arts and community institutions, it breaks new ground by highlighting the ways in which it diverged from these institutions. The analysis of the museum’s collections and programming emphasizes the contributions that Horsfall and the Art Museum Committee made to museum education through the museum’s circulating loan collections and school tours.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art History

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• Parker, Angela

Contributors dc:contributor

• Catherine Roach

• England
• Great Britain
• museum
• museum studies
• Horsfall
• children
• education
• Manchester
• Ruskin
• Brooklyn
• Victorian
• Arts and Humanities

Statement dc:rights

• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/623

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-1622