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The story of Danish museums : 1909 / Thomas Bloch Ravn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ravn, Thomas Bloch, author.
- Series:
- Focus on Danish History
- Focus on Danish History ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museums--Denmark--History.
- Museums.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
- Edition:
- 1
- Place of Publication:
- Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Endless rows of stone axe heads, display after display. Around 1900, a typical Danish museum would focus on finds, research and prehistory. But new thoughts were brewing. Visions of focusing on lives lived, and making museums for people, not about things. This shift gave birth to folk and open-air museums where the distant past no longer eclipsed human memory. The resulting clash: the capital vs the provinces, the National Museum vs the many new local museums. The debate goes on, but today's angle is different. As Danes seek out cultural-history museums like never before, this success raises the eternal question: Where should museums head in the future? Perhaps we spy the contours of new clashes on the distant horizon. Take a guided tour of Danish museum history with Thomas Bloch Ravn, director of the open-air museum Den Gamle By.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title
- The battle of the museums
- From prehistory to people
- The eyes of a stranger
- The dispute
- The National Exhibition
- A Scandinavian idea
- The dream: a merchant-town museum
- Prehistory
- The Wunderkammer and its descendants
- The Norse Museum
- Local museums on the rise
- Müller's model
- Concentration of power
- Bernhard Olsen and the expositions
- The Danish Folk Museum and the Open-Air Museum
- Müller's damning decree
- The battle over applied art
- The National Museum of Denmark
- Swearing to objectivity
- Modern times
- By leaps and bounds
- On state funding
- The museum boom
- On the Jutland heath
- Pick a theme
- Living history at Hjerl Hede
- Urban history at Den Gamle By
- Prehistory in Aarhus
- Museums about people
- Out with the old
- Way out in Brede
- The Danish museum model
- Back and forth
- Specialties and niches
- People meeting people
- A new old town
- The future
- Know thyself!
- Further reading
- Copyright
- Backcover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 100).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9788772191904
- 8772191902
- 9788772191898
- 8772191899
- OCLC:
- 1313477883
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