National Museums: New Studies from around the World

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Table of Contents
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Preface
Part One: Introductions and reflections
	Chapter 1. National museums and the national imagination
		The performance of reality
		A problem with the script
		The union of scriptwriters
		Anchoring the nation
		The problem of diversity
		The nation on the world stage
		The material boundaries and the national imagination
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 2. Explaining national museums: Exploring comparative approaches to the study of national museums
		Trajectories
		Antiquity used and contested
		The Nordic Sagas
		Nation-building
		Comparing paths to nationhood and national museums
		Explanatory powers
		Comparing cultural histories
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3. Myths of nationality
		The object in and of the museum
		Plato’s dilemma
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part Two: Origins and ideologies
	Chapter 4. Loading guns with patriotic love: Artur Hazelius’s attempts at Skansen to remake Swedish society
		A loving people, folk memory and folk future
		A Romantic story: love, good and womanhood
		Maintaining civility
		The festival as performance of a good society
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5. Narrative and imagination: Remaking national history at the Musée des Monuments français, Paris
		A museum of experiences
		History, monuments and parcours
		Chronology and completeness
		Revolution and fabrique
		Emplotment
		Evoking narrative history
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6. National art museum practice as political cartography in nineteenth-century Britain
		Note
		Bibliography
	Chapter 7. Placing Britain in the British Museum: Encompassing the Other
		‘Confounding all the unities of time and place’
		Barbarian antiquities
		The emergence of an anthropological perspective
		The rejection of Pitt Rivers
		Cosmopolitan science and nationalist enthusiasms
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8. Producing an art history of the nation: The origins of the Finnish National Gallery
		The blank canvas
		A practical collection
		Producing a national story of art
		The Ateneum’s evolution
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9. Reimagining the nation in museums: Poland’s old and new national museums
		Keeping the flame alive
		New museums of national history
		Reviving Jewish culture in Poland
		Contemporary art and nation
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10. National art museums and the ‘modernization’ of Turkey
		The Imperial Museum and its legacy
		The art museum in the republic
		Istanbul Modern and capitalism
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11. Political change and the national museum in Taiwan
		Japanese rule and the rise of the colonial museum
		The rise of Chinese museums in Taiwan
		The rise of Taiwanese identity
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12. The British Museum in print: From national to universal museum
		Museum books
		Reading museum books
		Social events and the chain of texts
		Social actors in the text
		Museum of the world for the world
		Dialogue and difference in text
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part Three: Museology and participation
	Chapter 13. The nation disrobed: Nudity, leisure and class at the Prado
		Museums and public spectatorship in Madrid
		The nationalization of the Prado and the evolving visitor
		A museum in the leisure zone
		Art, museum and politics
		A proper vision of the nude body
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 14. Taking part: Performance, participation and national art museums
		Models of participation
		An exemplary model
		An abortive model
		A promising model
		A mute model
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 15. Representing Wales at the Museum of Welsh Life
		The creation of the Welsh Folk Museum
		Existing literature
		Formative factors
		Collecting Wales
		Markets and audiences
		Displaying Wales
		Multi-sited displays of identity
		Conclusions
		Postscript
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 16. Same exhibitions, different labels? Romanian national museums and the fall of communism
		Museums of communism
		The antidote museum
		Communist museology
		Words versus objects
		Exhibiting communism after 1989
		The prison museum
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 17. Re-thinking Korean cultural identities at the National Museum of Korea
		Insider’s perspectives: autoethnography
		Korean sorrow: the imposition of identity
		Speaking the language of a national museum
		In the third space
		Note
		Bibliography
	Chapter 18. The aesthetics and narratives of national museums in China
		The unifying aesthetic
		The aesthetics of tradition and progress
		Communist aesthetics
		The aesthetics of cultural nationalism
		The aesthetics of the new national museums
		Behind and beyond the aesthetic display
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 19. The Dutch National Historical Museum: A national museum for the twenty-first century
		A place for a nation’s history
		The multicultural state
		The battle of the cities
		The exploratory phase: the project sessions
		The concept phase: a two-man board and the vision document
		Problems and solutions
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 20. Who authors the nation? The debate surrounding the building of the new Estonian National Museum
		Authoring the nation
		Participation
		Towards innovation and participation
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 21. Recounting history: Constructing a national narrative in the Hong Kong Museum of History
		The emergence of Hong Kong identity
		Building the Museum of History
		Designing the national story
		Authenticating and enhancing the national story
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part Four: Ourselves and Others
	Chapter 22. Kaesŏng Koryŏ Museum:
The place of one Korean nation?
		The unifying rhetoric of the Kulturnation
		The Koryŏ Museum: from national awakening to national division
		Kaesŏng Koryŏ Museum: a national museum in many ways
		The narrative of the cultural nation
		The narrative of the ideological nation
		The narrative of the emotional nation
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 23. The national museum as palimpsest: Postcolonial politics and the National Museum of Korea
		The museum as palimpsest
		Erasure or restoration?
		Renationalising the National Museum
		The rebirth and diversification
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 24. Exhibiting China in London
		The Celebrated Chinese Collection
		The Great Exhibition of 1851
		The South Kensington Museum
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 25. Exhibiting the Congo in Stockholm
		A new national narrative
		The exhibition
		Swedes in the Congo Free State
		The expressive agency of objects
		Exhibiting the Congolese
		Exhibiting the Swedes
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 26. After the fall of the Berlin Wall: Nationalism and multiculturalism at the Bulgarian National Ethnographic Museum
		Communism, social engineering and the museum
		Nationalism or multiculturalism?
		Multiculturalism enters the museum
		Museum and community
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 27. The IJzertoren Memorial Museum: A Flemish national museum?
		The Flemish ‘nation’ in the First World War
		Building the tower
		The narrative of a nation
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 28. Postcolonialism, ethnicity and the National Museum of Ireland
		Postcolonialism and museums
		Ethnicity and national museums in non-settler nations
		Ethnicity and the National Museum of Ireland
		Representing ethnicity
		Bibliography
	Chapter 29. Facing up to diversity: Conversations at the National Museum of Colombia
		Multiculturalism in Colombia
		Exhibiting Afro-Colombian culture
		Unifying narratives
		Representation
		Conflict
		Facing up to the future
		Notes
		Bibliography
Index