National museums: new studies from around the world

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Knell, Simon J. 1955- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge 2011
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Zusammenfassung: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 decade
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ISBN:9781315787312