Exhibiting Scotland

Exhibiting Scotland Objects, Identity, and the National Museum - Public History in Historical Perspective

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781625343284
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 069.5
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xiv, 235
Weight: 478g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 23mm