Title & Author:

The museum is open : towards a transnational history of museums 1750-1940 / editors, Andrea Meyer, Bénédicte Savoy.

Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014]
©2014

Description:

vi, 265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Contact zones, 2196-3746 ; volume 1

Notes:
Chiefly contributions presented at the conference "Transnational History of Museums" held at the Technische Universität Berlin, February 17-18, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Towards a Transnational History of Museums. An Introduction / Benedicte Savoy -- 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 -- Competition, Exchange, Comparison. Nineteenth-Century Cast Museums in Transnational Perspective / Charlotte Schreiter -- Reproduced Art. Early Photographic Campaigns in European Collections / Dorothea Peters -- Cross-border Transfers of Architectural Models and Display Principles -- Top Lighting from Paris in 1750. The Picture Gallery in Kassel and Its Significance for the Emergence of the Modern Museum of Art / Stefanie Heraeus -- A European Museum-Cocktail around 1900. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow / Sabine Skott -- The journal Mouseion as Means of Transnational Culture. Guglielmo Pacchioni and the Dawn of the "Modern Museum" in Italy / Alessandra Galizzi Kroegel -- Close Inspections of the "Other." Commissions and Experts on Tour -- Cultural Excursions. The Transnational Transfer of Museums in the Transatlantic World / Thomas Adam -- From Model Museum to the Fear of the Uhlan. Museum Relations between France and Germany during the Second Empire / Arnaud Bertinet -- Admiration and Fear. The Reports of Marius Vachon on Museums of Industrial Arts in Europe / Lieske Tibbe -- Cosmopolitan Scholar, Servant of Art. Transnational Contexts of Igor Grabar in Early Twentieth-Century Russia / Roland Cvetkovski -- Reforming the Museum -- A Supranational Project -- Art Beyond the Nation. A European Vision for the National Gallery / Alan Crookham -- The Journal Museumskunde -- "Another Link between the Museums of the World" / Andrea Meyer -- Between Museumsinsel and Manhattan. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Ambassador and Agent of Wilhelm von Bode at the Metropolitan Museum, 1908 -- 1914 / Xavier-Pol Tilliette -- The German Museum Curators and the International Museums Office, 1926 -- 1937 / Christina Kott -- Museums as Transnational Sites for National Identities -- Building on the London 1881 Pretext. The Birth of the Portuguese National Fine Arts Museum / Emilia Ferreira -- Museum as a Transnational Space for National Identities. A Case Study on the Turkish Experience / Ayse H. Koksal -- French Art for All! Museum Projects in Africa 1912 -- 1931 between Avant-garde and Colonialism / Barbel Kuster.

Summary:

Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory - all of these composite designations have come into our parlance in recent years. Above all, this expanding terminology underscores the growing scholarly interest in museums. In this new scholarship, 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 ca. 1750 to 1940.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9783110298802 (hd. bd.)
3110298805 (hd. bd.)
(print + online)
9783110298833
311029883X
(online)
9783110298826
3110298821

Subject:

Art museums History Congresses.
Museums History Congresses.
Cultural property Philosophy Congresses.
Cultural relations Congresses.
Intercultural communication Congresses.
Museum techniques Congresses.
Musées Histoire Congrès.
Relations culturelles Congrès.
Muséologie Congrès.
Art museums.
Cultural relations.
Intercultural communication.
Museum techniques.
Museums.
Museum
Nationalbewusstsein
Kulturaustausch
Transnationalisierung
Museer historia.
1750-1940

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Added entries:

Meyer, Andrea, 1968-
Savoy, Bénédicte.
Contact zones (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; v. 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285641
Call No.: BIB 225388
Status: Available