Behind the Crimson Curtain: The Rise and Fall of Peale's Museum by Lee Alan Dugatkin

Behind the Crimson Curtain: The Rise and Fall of Peale's Museum

Lee Alan Dugatkin

303 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative inspiring medium-paced
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In 1786, Charles Willson Peale created the most important, and most famous, museum in Revolutionary-era America. A fusion of natural history and art, Peale's Philadelphia Museum was meant to be an embodiment of the Enlightenment. Behind the Crimso...

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