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Exhibiting Scotland: Objects, Identity, and the National Museum
University of Massachusetts Press, 2018 eISBN: 978-1-61376-569-2 | Paper: 978-1-62534-329-1 Library of Congress Classification AM101.E22B83 2018 Dewey Decimal Classification 069.5
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In 1707 Scotland ceased to exist as an independent country and became part of Great Britain. Yet it never lost its distinct sense of identity, history, and politics. To preserve the country's unique antiquities and natural specimens, a Scottish earl founded the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1780, at the beginning of the Enlightenment's museum boom. Now numbering twelve million objects and specimens and representing everything from archaeology to applied arts and design, from social history to science and the natural world, these collections formed the foundation for what eventually became the National Museum of Scotland. In Exhibiting Scotland, Alima Bucciantini traces how these collections have helped tell the changing stories of this country for centuries and how the museum reflects the Scots' continuing negotiation of their place within modern Britain. See other books on: Identity | Museums | National Museum | Objects | Scotland See other titles from University of Massachusetts Press |
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Exhibiting Scotland: Objects, Identity, and the National Museum
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS
University of Massachusetts Press, 2018
eISBN: 978-1-61376-569-2
Paper: 978-1-62534-329-1
eISBN: 978-1-61376-569-2
Paper: 978-1-62534-329-1
In 1707 Scotland ceased to exist as an independent country and became part of Great Britain. Yet it never lost its distinct sense of identity, history, and politics. To preserve the country's unique antiquities and natural specimens, a Scottish earl founded the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1780, at the beginning of the Enlightenment's museum boom. Now numbering twelve million objects and specimens and representing everything from archaeology to applied arts and design, from social history to science and the natural world, these collections formed the foundation for what eventually became the National Museum of Scotland.
In Exhibiting Scotland, Alima Bucciantini traces how these collections have helped tell the changing stories of this country for centuries and how the museum reflects the Scots' continuing negotiation of their place within modern Britain.
In Exhibiting Scotland, Alima Bucciantini traces how these collections have helped tell the changing stories of this country for centuries and how the museum reflects the Scots' continuing negotiation of their place within modern Britain.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS
