Spaces for Shaping the Nation : National Museums and National Galleries in Nineteenth-Century Europe / ed. by Christina Strunck, Marina Beck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beck, Marina, Contributor.

Beck, Marina, Editor.

Berger, Stefan, Contributor.

Bergvelt, Ellinoor, Contributor.

Beuing, Raphael, Contributor.

Breward, Christopher, Contributor.

Gutbrod, Cristina, Contributor.

Kłudkiewicz, Kamila, Contributor.

Lyngby, Thomas, Contributor.

Olin, Martin, Contributor.

Roberts, Daniela, Contributor.

Strunck, Christina, Contributor.

Strunck, Christina, Editor.

Weniger, Matthias, Contributor.

Volkswagenstiftung, Funder.

Series:

Edition Museum Series

Edition Museum ; 73

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Strunck Christina : Christina Strunck (Prof. Dr.) ist Vorstand des Instituts für Kunstgeschichte an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Summary:

As spaces of knowledge, the national museums and galleries of nineteenth-century Europe played an important role both in the shaping of nation-states and the education of their populations. In this context, such institutions sought to convey the history of the people, for example by displaying pictorial cycles of important scenes from their history, exhibiting objects associated with certain formative events, or arraying period rooms to promote a specific impression of the past. The contributions to this volume examine the purposes and educational strategies of national museums and national galleries via case studies from Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgements

Introduction and Framework

Introduction: Spaces for Shaping the Nation

Precursors to and Reinterpretations of the National Museum

Part 1: Memory

National Museums in Nineteenth-Century Europe

History in the Dutch National Museums 1800–1900

Part 2: Establishing National Museums

Conceiving a National Museum in the Federal State

Museums of a Stateless Nation, between History and Art

To no one Nation has been given the monopoly of genius”

Part 3: Education and Role Model

Educating the People

The Two (or Three?) National Museums of Sweden, 1840–1910

“Ein Nationalmuseum im vollsten und schönsten Sinne des Wortes”

Balancing the National and the Decorative Arts in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich

Part 4: Framing and Display Strategies

Objects in the Hall of F(r)ame

Visualizing Historical Greatness

The Sommerard Museum

Authors

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)

ISBN:

9783839466940

3839466946

OCLC:

1430180019