Exhibiting Scotland : objects, identity, and the national museum / Alima Bucciantini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bucciantini, Alima, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Museum of Scotland.

Physical Description:

xiv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]

Summary:

In 1707 Scotland ceased to exist as an independent country and became part of Great Britain. Yet it never lost its distinct sense of identity, history, and politics. To preserve the country's unique antiquities and natural specimens, a Scottish earl founded the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1780, at the beginning of the Enlightenment's museum boom. Now numbering twelve million objects and specimens and representing everything from archaeology to applied arts and design, from social history to science and the natural world, these collections formed the foundation for what eventually became the National Museum of Scotland.In 'Exhibiting Scotland', Alima Bucciantini traces how these collections have helped tell the changing stories of this country for centuries and how the museum reflects the Scots' continuing negotiation of their place within modern Britain.

Contents:

The Smithsonian inspires: 1984

Scotland, for Scotland: 1989

Creating a national narrative: 1998

Objects creating nations: 2005-2006

Objects unifying the nation: 2007

Changing nation, changing museum: 2008-2011.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1625343299

9781625343291

1625343280

9781625343284

OCLC:

1012343966