Antiquity inventoried : museums and "national antiquities" in the mid nineteenth century

Author

MacGregor, Arthur

Document type

Article (acte de congrès)

Language

English

Conference title

Study of the past in the Victorian age

Author (monograph)

Brand, Vanessa (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Study of the past in the Victorian age. 1998, 125-137, 1 ill.

Publisher

Oxbow, Oxford (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

As storehouses of the material remains of the past, museums assisted in processes of invention, which included the manufacture of "narratives of causation" as means of bridging the gap of historical discontinuity. Examines the role played by museum collections of so-called "national antiquities" in constructing the narrative of national historical identity.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- United Kingdom
• History museums
• Great Britain
• 1800-1900
• National identity

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Royaume-Uni
• Musée d'histoire
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1800-1900
• Identité nationale

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19990701-00209320

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