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Exhibiting Europe in Museums : Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, and Representations / Stefan Krankenhagen, Wolfram Kaiser, Kerstin Poehls.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Museums and Collections ; 6Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785332609
  • 9781782382911
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069.5094 23/eng/20231120
LOC classification:
  • AM40 .K3513 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Exhibiting Europe? Europeanisation as Cultural Practice -- Chapter 1. Musealising Europe: Compensation, Negotiation and the Conquest of the Future -- Chapter 2. Governing Europe: State Institutions and European Cultural and Museum Policy -- Chapter 3. Networking Europe: Societal Actors in the Europeanisation of the Museum Field -- Chapter 4. Collecting Europe: Strategies and Challenges in Transnational Collection Practice -- Chapter 5. Narrating Europe: The Story and Stories of European Integration -- Chapter 6. Crossing Europe: Migration and Mobility in Museal Spaces -- Conclusion. Exhibiting Europe: The Practice of Europeanisation in Museums -- Appendix 1. Interviews -- Appendix 2. Museums and Exhibitions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalization, which require more cross-border cooperation and different ways of telling stories for visitors. This book investigates how museums exhibit Europe. Based on research in nearly 100 museums across the Continent and interviews with cultural policy makers and museum curators, it studies the growing transnational activities of state institutions, societal organizations, and people in the museum field such as attempts to Europeanize collection policy and collections as well as different strategies for making narratives more transnational like telling stories of European integration as shared history and discussing both inward and outward migration as a common experience and challenge. The book thus provides fascinating insights into a fast-changing museum landscape in Europe with wider implications for cultural policy and museums in other world regions.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Exhibiting Europe? Europeanisation as Cultural Practice -- Chapter 1. Musealising Europe: Compensation, Negotiation and the Conquest of the Future -- Chapter 2. Governing Europe: State Institutions and European Cultural and Museum Policy -- Chapter 3. Networking Europe: Societal Actors in the Europeanisation of the Museum Field -- Chapter 4. Collecting Europe: Strategies and Challenges in Transnational Collection Practice -- Chapter 5. Narrating Europe: The Story and Stories of European Integration -- Chapter 6. Crossing Europe: Migration and Mobility in Museal Spaces -- Conclusion. Exhibiting Europe: The Practice of Europeanisation in Museums -- Appendix 1. Interviews -- Appendix 2. Museums and Exhibitions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalization, which require more cross-border cooperation and different ways of telling stories for visitors. This book investigates how museums exhibit Europe. Based on research in nearly 100 museums across the Continent and interviews with cultural policy makers and museum curators, it studies the growing transnational activities of state institutions, societal organizations, and people in the museum field such as attempts to Europeanize collection policy and collections as well as different strategies for making narratives more transnational like telling stories of European integration as shared history and discussing both inward and outward migration as a common experience and challenge. The book thus provides fascinating insights into a fast-changing museum landscape in Europe with wider implications for cultural policy and museums in other world regions.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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