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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Kaiser, Wolfram,; Krankenhagen, Stefan,; Poehls, Kerstin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Udgivelsesår: 2014
• Sprog: English
• Serier: Museums and Collections ; 6
• Fysisk beskrivelse: 1 online resource (254 p.)

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...

Table of 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