Alexander brings to life the stories of twelve ambitious leaders from the United States and Europe who helped shape the future of the museum world.

Includes index.

Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum -- Charles Willson Peale and his Philadelphia Museum -- Dominique Vivant Denon and the Louvre of Napoleon -- William Jackson Hooker and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew -- Henry Cole and the South Kensington (Victoria and Albert) Museum -- Ann Pamela Cunningham and Washington's Mount Vernon -- Wilhelm Bode and Berlin's Museum Island -- Artur Hazelius and Skansen -- George Brown Goode and the Smithsonian Museums -- Carl Hagenbeck and his Stellingen Tierpark -- Oskar von Miller and the Deutsches Museum -- John Cotton Dana and the Newark Museum.