Order and culture. Passages of popularization

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  • Marie-Louise von Plessen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.3774

Abstract

I will try to draw a portrait of the political genesis of the museum as a popular institution for national thought and education by examining Europe's first National Museums: the British Museum, the Louvre, the Versailles Museum of the History of France and those museums characterized by an early expression of nationalist feeling before the political institution of the nation state emerged. Their influence grew from enlightened philosophy and they became, in spite of their aspiration of objectivity, major teachers of minor and later pupils. 

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