Exhibiting Europe in Museums

Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, and Representations
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-260-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Museums and Collections

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. Based on research in nearly 100 museums across the Continent and interviews with cultural policy makers and museum curators, it studies the growing transnational activities of state institutions, societal organizations, and people in the museum field such as attempts to Europeanize collection policy and collections as well as different strategies for making narratives more transnational like telling stories of European integration as shared history and discussing both inward and outward migration as a common experience and challenge. The book thus provides fascinating insights into a fast-changing museum landscape in Europe with wider implications for cultural policy and museums in other world regions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaiser, Wolfram

Krankenhagen, Stefan

Poehls, Kerstin

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturpolitik, Kulturmanagement
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

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

Interviews

Museums and Exhibitions

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Poehls, Kerstin
Kerstin Poehls is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg in Germany. She completed her PhD in European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin and has been Visiting Scholar at the University of the Aegean in Mytilini/Greece in 2011. Her books include MuseumX (2011, edited with F. Bose et al.) and Sammeln on collecting as an everyday, museal and academic practice (2015, edited with Stephan Faust).

Kaiser, Wolfram
Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth in England and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. He has been Visiting Senior Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, and the University of Edinburgh. His most recent book is Writing the Rules for Europe. Experts, Cartels, and International Organizations (2014, with J. Schot).

Krankenhagen, Stefan
Stefan Krankenhagen is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Hildesheim in Germany. He has been Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich and the German American Academic Council in Washington, D.C. He has edited The Development of European Narratives in Museums, Collections, and Exhibitions (2011, special issue of Culture Unbound) and Geschichte kuratieren. Beiträge zu einer Ästhetik der An-Ordnung von Geschichte (2016).

Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth in England and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. He has been Visiting Senior Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, and the University of Edinburgh. His most recent book is Writing the Rules for Europe. Experts, Cartels, and International Organizations (2014, with J. Schot).