TY - BOOK ID - 64931230 TI - National museums and nation-building in Europe, 1750-2010 : mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change AU - Aronsson, Peter AU - Elgenius, Gabriella PY - 2015 SN - 1315737132 1317569156 0415853966 1322435146 PB - London ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - National museums KW - Museums KW - Nationalism KW - Political culture KW - Popular culture KW - History. KW - Political aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Europe KW - Politics and government. KW - Cultural policy. KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Communication KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Culture KW - Political science KW - Public institutions KW - Cabinets of curiosities KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Politics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:64931230 AB - "Europe's national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and taxpayers, policy makers, domestic and foreign visitors alike. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess the national museum as a manifestation of cultural and political desires, rather than that a straightforward representation of the historical facts of a nation. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 examines the degree to which national museums have created models and representations of nations, their past, present and future, and proceeds to assess the consequences of such attempts. Revealing how different types of nations and states--former empires, monarchies, republics, pre-modern, modern or post-imperial entities--deploy and prioritise different types of museums (based on art, archaeology, culture and ethnography) in their making, this book constitutes the first comprehensive and comparative perspective on national museums in Europe and their intricate relationship to the making of nations and states"-- ER -