Exhibiting Scotland : Objects, Identity, and the National Museum
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Public History in Historical Perspective
ISBN-10
1625343299
ISBN-13
9781625343291
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
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University of Massachusetts Press
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US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 26th, 2018
Print length
392 Pages
Weight
356 grams
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15.40 x 22.70 x 1.50 cms
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To preserve Scotland’s unique antiquities and natural specimens, a Scottish earl founded the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1780. Now numbering twelve million objects, these collections formed the foundation for what eventually became the National Museum of Scotland. Alima Bucciantini traces how these collections have helped tell the changing stories of this country for centuries.
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.
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