TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mason,Rhiannon
TI  - Museums, nations, identities: Wales and its national museums 
SN  - 0708319726
AV  - AM42.W35 M37 2007
U1  - 069.09429 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cardiff
PB  - University of Wales Press
KW  - National Museums & Galleries of Wales
KW  - History
KW  - Museums
KW  - Wales
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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