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 …

In today's diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in
which individuals can both engage critical thought and celebrate community. This volume …

This working paper presents the findings of qualitative research carried out by three
University research teams for Work Package 6 (WP6): Museum Citizens, part of the …

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. This book reveals how national museums are tied to nations and …

All states have seen major threats, challenges and changes to their political constitution
since the mid-nineteenth century. Everyday life has changed dramatically, with …

Exhibitions of Islamic artefacts in European museums have since 1989 been surrounded by
a growing rhetoric of cultural tolerance, in response to the dissemination of images of Islam …

Between 1977 and 2011 the Swedish organization Samdok presented a nationwide
programme for contemporary museum collecting, including an increasingly flexible …

The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of
Vikings in museums across Iceland, British Isles and Norway. Drawing on theories from …

This chapter is concerned with two main questions: what is a museum? And what is museum
studies? It explores arguments advanced particularly by F. Candlin, who suggested that in …

This dissertation examined the history of museums in Mongolia and their fate in the post
socialist period. The work ultimately identified that while museums have sought to contribute …