Spaces for Shaping the Nation : : National Museums and National Galleries in Nineteenth-Century Europe / / ed. by Christina Strunck, Marina Beck.

• Funder: Volkswagen Stiftung
• MitwirkendeR: Beck, Marina,; Berger, Stefan,; Bergvelt, Ellinoor,; Beuing, Raphael,; Breward, Christopher,; Gutbrod, Cristina,; Kłudkiewicz, Kamila,; Lyngby, Thomas,; Olin, Martin,; Roberts, Daniela,; Strunck, Christina,; Weniger, Matthias,
• HerausgeberIn: Beck, Marina,; Strunck, Christina,
• Author: Volkswagen Stiftung
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Museum Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

As spaces of knowledge, the national museums and galleries of nineteenth-century Europe played an important role both in the shaping of nation-states and the education of their populations. In this context, such institutions sought to convey the history of the people, for example by displaying picto...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword and Acknowledgements
• Introduction and Framework
• Introduction: Spaces for Shaping the Nation
• Precursors to and Reinterpretations of the National Museum
• Part 1: Memory
• National Museums in Nineteenth-Century Europe
• History in the Dutch National Museums 1800–1900
• Part 2: Establishing National Museums
• Conceiving a National Museum in the Federal State
• Museums of a Stateless Nation, between History and Art
• To no one Nation has been given the monopoly of genius”
• Part 3: Education and Role Model
• Educating the People
• The Two (or Three?) National Museums of Sweden, 1840–1910
• “Ein Nationalmuseum im vollsten und schönsten Sinne des Wortes”
• Balancing the National and the Decorative Arts in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich
• Part 4: Framing and Display Strategies
• Objects in the Hall of F(r)ame
• Visualizing Historical Greatness
• The Sommerard Museum
• Authors