Museum-Making in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia: Cultural Institutions and Policies from Colonial to Post-Colonial Times

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
	Figures
	Tables
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
	1.1 Museums, heritage, and colonialism
	1.2 Museum-making
	1.3 Museum-making and French Indochina
	Note
	References
Chapter 2: French Indochina as a colonial project
	2.1 An incremental project
	2.2 The conquest of the territory
		2.2.1 Missionaries
		2.2.2 A military conquest
		2.2.3 Early exploration missions
	2.3 Governance and the political architecture of French Indochina
	2.4 Intellectuals, societies, colonial imaginaries, and anti-colonialism
	2.5 Conclusion: Re-framing French Indochina
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: Museum-making in French Indochina
	3.1 Museum-making
	3.2 Museums and museum culture
		3.2.1 Not a foreign idea: museum cultures in Asia
		3.2.2 Collections in pre-colonial times
		3.2.3 Early colonial museum-making in Cochinchina
	3.3 The Hanoi Exhibition and the Maurice Long Museum
	3.4 The EFEO and museum-making
		3.4.1 Circulation of collections and the development of a museum: Musée Louis Finot and Musée de l’Homme de Hanoi
		3.4.2 Saigon and the Musée Blanchard de la Brosse
		3.4.3 Da Nang and Huê
		3.4.4 Museum-making in Cambodia and Laos
	3.5 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Heritage preservation and museum administration in a colonial society
	4.1 Heritage policy in French Indochina
	4.2 Museum administration and the complexity of cultural governance
	4.3 Illicit trades, vandalism, controversies, and heritage preservation
	4.4 The construction of heritage norms
	4.5 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5: Collection development and collection management
	5.1 Collection development
	5.2 Collaborations and circulation of cultural items
	5.3 Collection management
		5.3.1 Archaeology, local collections, and open-ended conversations
		5.3.2 ‘World Museums’
	5.4 Conclusion: universalism and ‘ Workshop for Living Arts’
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: Museums and their publics
	6.1 Scientists, merchants, industrialists, and public servants of the colony (1900–1920)
	6.2 Ethnicity, aesthetic values, and art amateurs (1920–1930)
	6.3 Art, cultural tourism, and growing audiences (1930–1940)
	6.4 Wars, diplomacy, and management (1940–1960)
	6.5 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: Museums in post-colonial times
	7.1 From French Indochina to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
	7.2 Decolonizing museums
	7.3 New museum-making, new museums
		7.3.1 Vietnam: war, revolution, and the nation, 1955–1990
		7.3.2 Doi Moi and museums in Vietnam (1990–2020)
		7.3.3 Laos
		7.3.4 Cambodia
	7.4 Development and cooperation
	7.5 Conclusion: museums at a crossroads
	Notes
	References
Index