Culture is traditionally a key field of French policy. Cultural institutions are heavily dependent
on public support, and the most important museums belong to the state. Nevertheless what …

If we were to choose a single verb to characterize French policy in the museum sector since
the 1980s, we would be tempted to choose 'to build'. The building fever has not been unique …

In the words of Stephen Weil,'...[T] he museum itself is not some archetypal form that we who
work in it are striving to bring into being but, rather, a constantly evolving social artifact that …

The 1970s and 1980s were periods of intense development for France's national museums,
as the country witnessed an extraordinary multiplication of the number of museums …

With the opening of several new musées de la société in France we gain an exceptionally
rich and revelatory way of understanding the society-wide debates about what France is and …

Privatization has become one of the major developments in society almost all over the world.
In the post-communist countries, in particular, privatization is changing all sectors of society …

This article reveals different ways in which actors in the art market–both prominent collectors
and high end galleries–manage to intervene in museum institutions' choices and, thus …

General histories of both the emergence of modern Europe and of the development of the
world's museums, especially and not surprisingly those written from a French viewpoint …

Since the opening of the Museum du Louvre in 1793; France has developed an important
network of state funded national museums; the majority of which are dedicated to art …

a guerre avait vidé tous les musées de France. Quand l'armistice nous eut permis L de
reprendre, tant bien que mal, le train de vie habituel d'un peuple civilisé, il nous fallut songer …