National museums : new studies from around the world / edited by Simon J. Knell ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knell, Simon J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National museums--Philosophy.

National museums.

National museums--Social aspects.

National characteristics.

Social aspects.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xx, 484 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Contents:

National museums and the national imagination / Simon J. Knell

Explaining national museums : exploring comparative approaches to the study of national museums / Peter Aronsson

Myths of nationality / Donald Preziosi

Loading guns with patriotic love : Artur Hazelius' attempts at Skansen to remake Swedish society / Mattias Backstrom

Narrative and imagination : remaking national history at the Musée des monuments français, Paris / Jennifer Carter

National art museum practice as political cartography in nineteenth-century Britain / Christopher Whitehead

Placing Britain in the British Museum : encompassing the other / Chris Wingfield

Producing an art history of the nation : the origins of the Finnish National Gallery / Susanna Pettersson

Reimagining the nation in museums : Poland's old and new national museums / Karoline Kaluza

National art museums and the 'modernization' of Turkey / Ayie H. Köksal

Political change and the national museum in Taiwan / Chi-Jung Chu

The British Museum in print : from national to universal museum / Sarah A. Hughes

The nation disrobed : nudity, leisure and class at the Prado / Eugenia Afrinoguenova

Taking part : performance, participation and national art museums / Stuart Burch

Representing Wales at the Museum of Welsh Life / Rhiannon Mason.

Same exhibitions, different labels? : Romanian national museums and the fall of communism / Simina Bădică

Re-thinking Korean cultural identities at the National Museum of Korea / Sunghee Choi

The aesthetics and narratives of national museums in China / Marizia Varutti

The Dutch National Historical Museum : a national museum for the twenty-first century / Gwenny Van Hasselt

Who authors the nation? : the debate surround the building of the new Estonian National Museum / Pille Runnel, Taavi Tatsi, and Pille Pruulmann-Vangerfeldt

Recounting history : constructing a national narrative in the Hong Kong Museum of History / Emily Stokes-Rees

Kaesong Koryo Museum : the place of one Korean nation? / Ruth Scheidhauer

The national museum as palimpsest : postcolonial politics and the National Museum of Korea / Jung Joon Lee

Exhibiting China in London / Amy Jane Barnes

Exhibiting the Congo in Stockholm / Otten Gustafsson Reinius

After the fall of the Berlin Wall : nationalism and multiculturalism at Bulgarian National Ethnographic museum / Radostina Sharenkova

The Ijzertoren Memorial Museum : a Flemish national museum? / Karen D. Shelby

Postcolonialism, ethnicity and the National Museum of Ireland / Alan Kirwan

Facing up to diversity : conversations at the National Museum of Colombia / Cristina Lleras.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415547734

9780415547741

0415547733

0415547741

OCLC:

636563679