Science for the Nation: Perspectives on the History of the Science Museum

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Foreword; S.Schaffer Introduction; P.Morris Infected by the Bacillus of Science: The Explosion of South Kensington; R.Bud The First Years: The Science Museum at War and Peace; T.Scheinfeldt The Science Museum and the Second World War; T.Parsons III Ambition and Anxiety: The Science Museum, 1950s to 1983; S.Anthony Parallax Error? A Participant's Account of the Science Museum, c.1980-c.2000; T.Boon Waves of Change: How The Science Museum's Library Rose, Fell and Rose Again; N.Wyatt 'A Worthy and Suitable House' Science Museum Buildings and the Temporality of Space; D.Rooney Exhibiting Science: Changing Conceptions of Science Museum Display; A.Nahum Beyond the Children's Gallery: The Influence of Children on the Development of the Science Museum; A.Bunney 'An Effective Organ of Public Enlightenment': The Role of Temporary Exhibitions in the Science Museum; P.Morris Collecting for the Science Museum: Constructing the Collections, the Culture and the Institution; R.Bud Lifting the Stone: Housing the Collections; J.Liffen The International Context and the Context of Internationalism; T.Scheinfeldt Afterword: The Museum of the Future; C.Rapley Appendix1: List of Temporary Exhibitions from 1912 to 1983 Appendix2: List of Senior Staff from 1893 to 2000 Appendix3: Visitor Figures for the Science Museum from 1909 to 2008