National museums and national identity: Scotland
Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Sheridan, J A
Date published
2024
Abstract
This traces the history of the development of the National Museum of Scotland (NMoS) from its dual beginnings, as the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (which became the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland) on the one hand, and as the Industrial Museum of Scotland on the other. It explores the differing degrees to which, and ways in which, a sense in Scottish national identity lay behind the development of the NMoS, and the extent to which a national identity is expressed, explicitly or implicitly, in its displays.
Series name
Rencontres du MAN
Book title
Archéologie en musée et identités nationales en Europe (1848–1914) : un héritage en quàªte de nouveaux défis au 21e siècle
Editor
Louboutin, Catherine
Lehoà«rff, Anne
Volume
1
Pagination
181–198
Publisher
Sidestone Press
Place of publication
Leiden
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