National Museums

Part 1: Introductions and Reflections -- 1. National Museums and the National Imagination; 2. Explaining National Museums; 3. Myths of Nationality; Part 2: Origins and Ideologies -- 4. Loading Guns with Patriotic Love; 5. Narrative and Imagination; 6. National Art Museum Practice as Political Cartography in Nineteenth-Century Britain; 7. Placing Britain in the British Museum; 8. Producing an Art History of the Nation; 9. Reimagining the Nation in Museums; 10. National Art Museums and the 'Modernization' of Turkey; 11. Political Change and the National Museum in Taiwan; 12. The British Museum in Print; Part 3: Museology and Participation -- 13. The Nation Disrobed; 14. Taking Part; 15. Representing Wales at the Museum of Welsh Life; 16. Same Exhibitions, Different Labels?; 17. Re-Thinking Korean Cultural Identities at the National Museum of Korea; 18. The Aesthetics and Narratives of National Museums in China; 19. The Dutch National Historical Museum; 20. Who Authors the Nation?; 21. Recounting History; Part 4: Ourselves and Others -- 22. Kaesong Koryo Museum; 23. The National Museum as Palimpsest; 24. Exhibiting China in London; 25. Exhibiting the Congo in Stockholm; 26. After the Fall of the Berlin Wall; 27. The Ijzertoren Memorial Museum; 28. Postcolonialism, Ethnicity and the National Museum of Ireland; 29. Facing Up to Diversity.