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 …

Part I of this study (Boylan, 1992) reviewed the contribution made to the development of
what are today taken to be the fundamental norms of museum practice of the four …

This thesis explores important aspects of the debates and practices that since the First World
War have both extended the meaning of museums and museology, and renovated what was …

For the last twenty years historians and art historians, building on the work of such French
sociologists as Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau and Pierre Gaudibert in the 1970s, have …

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 …

French art museums are born, against the european tradition of the so-called" enlightened
despotism", in a revolutionary moment: they obey to democratic and republican inspirations …

In the 1980s, a wave of construction and renovation swept through the French museum
world. It was driven by the need to renovate badly deteriorating museums and a growing …

France's history museums have undergone extensive and rapid change over the last two to
three decades. Following on from major changes in the world of France's art museums, the …

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 …

As a site where the products of nature, of science, and of the arts were preserved and
exhibited, the museum was a central institution of the nineteenth century. In France, in …