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Spaces for Shaping the Nation: National Museums and National Galleries in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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Abstract 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 picto... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
Europe; culture of remembrance; museum; nineteenth century; cultural history
Classification
Other Fields of Humanities
Free Keywords
National Museums; National Galleries; Nation Building; Museology; History of the 19th Century
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
278 p.
Series
Edition Museum
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839466940
ISSN
2702-9026
ISBN
978-3-8394-6694-0
Status
Published Version; reviewed