National Museums: New Studies from Around the World

By: Simon J. Knell and Peter Aronsson and Arne Bugge Amundsen and Amy Jane Barnes and Stuart Burch and Jennifer Carter and Viviane Gosselin and Sarah A. Hughes and Alan Kirwan

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781317723134
Related ISBNs:: 9781315787312, 9780415547741, 9780415547741, 9780415547734, 9780415547734
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 04/01/20
Copyrighted By:: Simon Knell, Peter Aronsson and Arne Bugge Amundsen
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Simon Knell
Edited by:: Peter Aronsson
Edited by:: Arne Bugge Amundsen