The museum is open: towards a transnational history of museums 1750-1940

Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory - all of these composite designations have come into our parlance in recent years. Above all, this expanding terminology underscores the growing scholarly interest in museums. In this new scholarship, a recurring assertion is that as...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin De Gruyter 2014
Schriftenreihe:Contact zones volume 1
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Zusammenfassung:Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory - all of these composite designations have come into our parlance in recent years. Above all, this expanding terminology underscores the growing scholarly interest in museums. In this new scholarship, a recurring assertion is that as an institution, the museum has largely functioned as a venue for the formation of specifically national identities. This volume, by contrast, highlights the museum as a product of transnational processes of exchange, focusing on the period from ca. 1750 to 1940
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (265 Seiten)
ISBN:9783110298826
DOI:10.1515/9783110298826