The Museum Is Open: Towards a Transnational History of Museums 1750-1940

Published by De Gruyter 2014

The Museum Is Open

Towards a Transnational History of Museums 1750-1940

Edited by: Andrea Meyer and Benedicte Savoy

Volume 1 in the series Contact Zones

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110298826

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About this book

New perspectives for the research on museum history

Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory – all this expanding terminology underscores the growing scholarly interest in museums. A recurring assertion is that as an institution, the museum has largely functioned as a venue for the formation of specifically national identities. This volume, by contrast, highlights the museum as a product of transnational processes of exchange, focusing on the period from 1750 to 1940.

A ground-breaking contribution to transnational art scholarship and museum history
Contribution to a better understanding of museum practice and its international framing

Reviews

"This wide-ranging essay collection offers insights into the transnational museum as both monumental site and ‘spatial fiction’."
Tom Stammers in: Journal of the History of Collections 10/2014

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Towards a Transnational History of Museums. An Introduction Andrea Meyer and Bénédicte Savoy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Museums and the Transnational Circuits of Artefacts
The Ancient Near East in Storage. Assyrian Museum Objects as a Cultural Challenge in Victorian England Mirjam Brusius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Competition, Exchange, Comparison. Nineteenth-Century Cast Museums in Transnational Perspective Charlotte Schreiter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Reproduced Art. Early Photographic Campaigns in European Collections Dorothea Peters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Cross-border Transfers of Architectural Models and Display Principles
Top Lighting from Paris in 1750 Stefanie Heraeus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
A European Museum-Cocktail around 1900. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow Bénédicte Savoy and Sabine Skott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
The Journal Mouseion as Means of Transnational Culture. Guglielmo Pacchioni and the Dawn of the “Modern Museum” in Italy Alessandra Galizzi Kroegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Close Inspections of the “Other.” Commissions and Experts on Tour
Cultural Excursions Thomas Adam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
From Model Museum to the Fear of the Uhlan. Museum Relations between France and Germany during the Second Empire Arnaud Bertinet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Admiration and Fear. The Reports of Marius Vachon on Museums of Industrial Arts in Europe Lieske Tibbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Cosmopolitan Scholar, Servant of Art. Transnational Contexts of Igor Grabar in Early Twentieth-Century Russia Roland Cvetkovski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Reforming the Museum – A Supranational Project
Art Beyond the Nation A European Vision for the National Gallery Susanna Avery-Quash and Alan Crookham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
The Journal Museumskunde – “Another Link between the Museums of the World” Andrea Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Between Museumsinsel and Manhattan. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Ambassador and Agent of Wilhelm von Bode at the Metropolitan Museum, 1908–1914 Xavier-Pol Tilliette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
The German Museum Curators and the International Museums Office, 1926–1937 Christina Kott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Museums as Transnational Sites for National Identities
Building on the London 1881 Pretext Emília Ferreira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Museum as a Transnational Space for National Identities. A Case Study on the Turkish Experience Ayse H. Koksal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
French Art for All! Museum Projects in Africa 1912–1931 between Avant-garde and Colonialism Bärbel Küster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Illustration credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Art historians, museologists, historians, cultural scholars, historians of science
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 27
Keywords: Art; museum; museum history; artifacts

eBook

Published: December 12, 2013
ISBN: 9783110298826

Hardcover

Published: December 19, 2013
ISBN: 9783110298802