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Museums, nations, identities : Wales and its national museums / Rhiannon Mason.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2007Description: viii, 300 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0708319726
  • 9780708319727
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069.09429 22
LOC classification:
  • AM42.W35 M37 2007
Contents:
Contexts : politics, museums, and identities in Wales -- 1. Nations and national museums -- 2. The creation of the first National Museum of Wales -- 3. Representing Wales at the Museum of Welsh Life -- 4. Representing Wales through art -- 5. Representing Wales through industrial and maritime heritage.
Review: "This book examines the relationship between museums, nations and identities with specific references to the national museums of Wales. It begins by analysing the definition of a 'national museum' and includes an overview of recent debates about national museums worldwide, drawing upon many international examples." "It explores how the national museum movement in Wales contributed to the project of nation-building; how the ensuing branches and departments within the museums set about representing the nation in its multiple guises; and the extent to which those national representations can be said to have been shaped by the museum's own specific disciplinary discourses." "The two key questions addressed in the book are: what makes a national museum national, and the extent to which those institutions established in relation to an earlier nationalist agenda can be reimagined in the context of a more civic post-nationalism. From a museological perspective, the book demonstrates how practical issues such as funding, marketing and staffing arrangements are as important in shaping museum representations as are wider academic discourses about national identity."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index.

Contexts : politics, museums, and identities in Wales -- 1. Nations and national museums -- 2. The creation of the first National Museum of Wales -- 3. Representing Wales at the Museum of Welsh Life -- 4. Representing Wales through art -- 5. Representing Wales through industrial and maritime heritage.

"This book examines the relationship between museums, nations and identities with specific references to the national museums of Wales. It begins by analysing the definition of a 'national museum' and includes an overview of recent debates about national museums worldwide, drawing upon many international examples." "It explores how the national museum movement in Wales contributed to the project of nation-building; how the ensuing branches and departments within the museums set about representing the nation in its multiple guises; and the extent to which those national representations can be said to have been shaped by the museum's own specific disciplinary discourses." "The two key questions addressed in the book are: what makes a national museum national, and the extent to which those institutions established in relation to an earlier nationalist agenda can be reimagined in the context of a more civic post-nationalism. From a museological perspective, the book demonstrates how practical issues such as funding, marketing and staffing arrangements are as important in shaping museum representations as are wider academic discourses about national identity."--BOOK JACKET.

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