'National Museums, new studies from around the world' and especially from Korea!

This new English language publication is a collection of papers concerning National Museums in the world. The nice surprise is that it includes three contributions writing about Korea, two about the National Museum in Seoul and my own on the Kaesong Koryo Museum (DPRK).

chaper 17:
Sunghee Choi, Re-thinking Korean cultural identities at the National Museum of Korea, pp 290-301.
chapter 22:
Ruth Scheidhauer, Kaesong Koryo Museum: The place of one Korean nation?, pp 357-372.
chapter 23:
Jung Joon Lee, The national museum as palimpsest: Postcolonial politics and the National Museum of Korea, pp 373-385.

National Museums: New Studies from Around the World

Edited by Simon Knell, Peter Aronsson, Arne Amundsen

Routledge 2010

The publisher description of the book:

National Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book reveals how these national museums have been used to create a sense of national self, place the nation in the arts, deal with the consequences of political change, remake difficult pasts, and confront those issues of nationalism, ethnicity and multiculturalism which have come to the fore in national politics in recent decades.

National Museums combines research from both leading and new researchers in the fields of history, museum studies, cultural studies, sociology, history of art, media studies, science and technology studies, and anthropology. It is an interrogation of the origins, purpose, organisation, politics, narratives and philosophies of national museums.

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