Conjunctures and Convergences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16898396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henrietta Lidchi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Museum Worlds (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-6729 • E-ISSN: 2049-6737 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/armw.2017.050115 |
| OpenAlex | W2766896134 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
The opening of the World Cultures galleries in Edinburgh in 2011 marked the renewal of the well-loved, much visited, and rebranded National Museum of Scotland, a museum that has long envisaged its role in national and international terms. Tracing an episodic trajectory over 150 years, the article highlights key moments (in the 1850s upon founding, the 1940s after World War II, and the late 2000s during the renovation) when culture and citizenship were subjects of debate. This museum historiography forms the explanatory framework for the principles underlying the development of new World Cultures galleries and the collecting of indigenous North American art and material culture. Two galleries—Artistic Legacies and Living Lands—are used to explore the theoretical underpinning and representational practices deployed, and how voices, objects, images, and partnerships were used not only to respond to critiques of ethnographic museum display but also to engender more open and optimistic connectivities
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Citizenship · Ethnography · Historiography · Indigenous · Key (lock · Media studies · National museum · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Underpinning · Visual arts · World War II · Anthropology · History · Law · Scottish History and National Identity
Scotland--the brand
Cosmopolitanism and Culture
Celtic Geographies
Enlightenment museums
Museums and National Identity
Museums, Nations, Identities
George Wilson's Map of Technology
The encyclopaedic museum
The National Museum of Scotland
Knowing Things
Empire and National Identities
Diaspora and Nation
British Dimensions
A Totem-Pole from the Nass River, British Columbia
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |