O organizador reuniu pesquisadores de diversos países para explicarem a identidade de suas respectivas nações em ensaios críticos e concisos, apresentando assim Argentina, Austrália, Brasil, Canadá, China, República Tcheca, Egito, Finlândia, França, Alemanha, Gana, Grã-Bretanha, Grécia, Hungria, Índia, Irã, Irlanda, Israel, Itália, Japão, México, Holanda, Polônia, Rússia, Espanha, Suécia, Turquia e Estados Unidos. A edição brasileira traz uma introdução crítica escrita pelo professor Robso...

The performance of heritage takes place in prestigious institutions such as museums and archives, in officially sanctioned spaces such as jubilees and public monuments, but also in more mundane, ephemeral and banal cultural practices, such as naming of phenomena, viewing exhibitions or walking in the countryside. This volume examines the performance of Nordic heritage and the shaping of the very idea of Norden in diverse contexts in North America, the Baltic and the Nordic countries and ex...

Historia har sedan antiken närt förhoppningar om att det ska gå att lära av det förflutna, att en bättre människa och framtid ska kunna byggas på historiska lärdomar. De platser som påminner och konkret visar på den förflutna verkligheten skapar en länk mellan dåtid och nu, och bjuder till handlande för en ljusare framtid.I Platser för en bättre värld visar fyra forskare på hur denna kraft i förbindelsen mellan materiellt, platsanknutet kulturarv och historiska berättelser...

National Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book reveals how these national museums have been used to create a sense of national self, place the nation in the arts, deal with the consequences of political change, remake difficult pasts, and confront those issues of nationalism, ...

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 tha...