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Museums, modernity and conflict : museums and collections in and of war since the nineteenth century /

"Museums, Modernity and Conflict examines the history of the relationship between museums, collections and war, revealing how museums have responded to and been shaped by war and conflicts of various sorts. Written by a mixture of museum professionals and academics and ranging across Europe, No...

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Other Authors: Hill, Kate, 1969- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Series:Routledge research in museum studies.
Subjects:
Museums > Europe > History > 20th century.
Art treasures in war.
War and society.
Historic sites > Conservation and restoration.
Monuments > Conservation and restoration.
Cultural property > Protection.
Cultural property > Destruction and pillage > History > 20th century.
Military museums > History > 20th century.
Cultural property > Destruction and pillage.
Military museums.
Museums.
Europe.
1900-1999
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 'Introduction: Museums and War' / Kate Hill
  • 'Salvage and Speculation: The London Art Market After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71)' / Thomas Stammers
  • 'Treasure, Triumph and Trespass: The Place of Conflict in the Collecting and Display of "Priam's Treasure"' / Zoe Mercer-Golden
  • The evacuation and management of the Louvre Museum's Near Eastern Antiquities department during World War II' / Zoe Vannier
  • Implementing Preventive Strategies Between World War I and II:Catalan Art Museums and the Spanish Civil War' / Eva March
  • '"The present is pretty terrible, the future is unknown, the past is the only stable thing to which we can turn": Philip Ashcroft, Rufford Village Museum and the preservation of rural life and tradition during the Second World War' / Bridget Yates
  • 'Museum without objects? The State Art Collections in Dresden during the Second World War' / Karin Mueller-Kelwing
  • 'Exhibiting in wartime. Nazification and resistance in Dutch art exhibitions' / Evelien Scheltinga
  • 'Exhibiting Ravensbrück: from the "Museum of the Antifascist Fight" to the "Museum of the History and Memory of the women's concentration camp"' / Doreen Pastor
  • '"Flight without feathers is not easy": John Tanner and the development of the Royal Air Force Museum' / Peter Elliott
  • '"We are a social history, not a military history museum": large objects and the 'peopling' of galleries in the Imperial War Museum,
  • London' / Kasia Tomasiewicz,
  • 'War Stories: The Art and Memorials Collection at the Canadian War Museum' / Sarafina Pagnotta.