The British Public and the British Museum : Shaping and Sharing Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
ISBN-10
1399523759
ISBN-13
9781399523752
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 31st, 2026
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
604 grams
Dimensions
24.30 x 16.40 x 2.30 cms
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A radical reinstatement of the public in the history of the formation of the ‘modern’ museum.
This book is a timely intervention in the history of museums in Britain. BP’s ongoing sponsorship of the British Museum, the appointment of George Osborne as a trustee and the Museum’s continued resistance to the repatriation of holdings such as the Parthenon Marbles and the Benin Bronzes have brought questions of the Museum’s funding, leadership and right to the objects in its collection to increased public attention. The book reveals this is not a recent ‘woke’ agenda but rather part of a long history of public resistance and activism enacted through the British Museum. It presents a cultural history of the nineteenth-century British Museum, departing from traditional institutional histories by centring public perception of the museum’s purpose and its uses in society.
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