National Museums is the first book to explore the national
museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national
contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a
showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book
reveals how these national museums have been used to create a sense
of national self, place the nation in the arts, deal with the
consequences of political change, remake difficult pasts, and
confront those issues of nationalism, ethnicity and
multiculturalism which have come to the fore in national politics
in recent decades.
National Museums combines research from both leading and new
researchers in the fields of history, museum studies, cultural
studies, sociology, history of art, media studies, science and
technology studies, and anthropology. It is an interrogation of the
origins, purpose, organisation, politics, narratives and
philosophies of national museums.
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