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

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Meyer, Andrea, 1968-, Savoy, Bénédicte
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014]
Series:Contact zones (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; v. 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • Towards a Transnational History of Museums. An Introduction
  • Museums and the Transnational Circuits of Artefacts
  • The Ancient Near East in Storage. Assyrian Museum Objects as a Cultural Challenge in Victorian England
  • Competition, Exchange, Comparison. Nineteenth-Century Cast Museums in Transnational Perspective
  • Reproduced Art. Early Photographic Campaigns in European Collections
  • Cross-border Transfers of Architectural Models and Display Principles
  • Top Lighting from Paris in 1750
  • Sabine Skott A European Museum-Cocktail around 1900. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow
  • The Journal Mouseion as Means of Transnational Culture. Guglielmo Pacchioni and the Dawn of the "Modern Museum" in Italy
  • Close Inspections of the "Other." Commissions and Experts on Tour
  • Cultural Excursions
  • From Model Museum to the Fear of the Uhlan. Museum Relations between France and Germany during the Second Empire
  • Admiration and Fear. The Reports of Marius Vachon on Museums of Industrial Arts in Europe
  • Cosmopolitan Scholar, Servant of Art. Transnational Contexts of Igor Grabar in Early Twentieth-Century Russia
  • Reforming the Museum
  • A Supranational Project
  • Alan Crookham Art Beyond the Nation A European Vision for the National Gallery
  • The Journal Museumskunde
  • "Another Link between the Museums of the World"
  • Between Museumsinsel and Manhattan. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Ambassador and Agent of Wilhelm von Bode at the Metropolitan Museum, 1908-1914
  • The German Museum Curators and the International Museums Office, 1926-1937
  • Museums as Transnational Sites for National Identities
  • Building on the London 1881 Pretext
  • Museum as a Transnational Space for National Identities. A Case Study on the Turkish Experience
  • French Art for All! Museum Projects in Africa 1912-1931 between Avant-garde and Colonialism.