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National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010
Mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change
Coordinators: Aronsson Peter, Elgenius Gabriella
Language: EnglishSubjects for National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010:
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Gustav III; dominique; Officina Grandi Riparazioni; poulot; Nineteenth Century National; european; West Germany; peter; King George III; aronsson; Bavarian National Museum; art; Civic Education; process; Nordic Museum; cultural; Nordiska Museet; history; National Museums; moderna; National Academies; Basso Peressut; European National Museums; Germanisches Nationalmuseum; National Art Museums; Galli Della Loggia; Gabriella Elgenius; National Master Narratives; Cultural History Museums; Colonial Museums; Napoleon III; National Libraries; Michel Le Bris; Dominique Vivant Denon; Italian Capital City
Publication date: 12-2017
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 12-2014
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Europe?s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and taxpayers, policy makers, domestic and foreign visitors alike. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess the national museum as a manifestation of cultural and political desires, rather than that a straightforward representation of the historical facts of a nation.
National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 examinesthe degree to which national museums have created models and representations of nations, their past, present and future, and proceeds to assess the consequences of such attempts. Revealing how different types of nations and states ? former empires, monarchies, republics, pre-modern, modern or post-imperial entities ? deploy and prioritise different types of museums (based on art, archaeology, culture and ethnography) in their making, this book constitutes the first comprehensive and comparative perspective on national museums in Europe and their intricate relationship to the making of nations and states.
Introduction 1. Towards a Typology: the changing roles of Art Museums 2. Cultural History Museums and the making of Citizens and Communities 3. National Museums in between Regionalism, Nationalism and Imperialism, 1750 – 1914 4. Post-imperial Nations: new states, new borders and new unions 1914-2010 5. Conflicted Histories: museums, nations, empires, religions 6. National Museums and National Symbols: searching for the ‘symbolic regimes’ of Europe Conclusion: The National Museum as a Cultural Constitution