Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword and Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction and Framework
5. Introduction: Spaces for Shaping the Nation 11
6. Precursors to and Reinterpretations of the National Museum 23
7. Part 1: Memory
8. National Museums in Nineteenth-Century Europe 53
9. History in the Dutch National Museums 1800–1900 65
10. Part 2: Establishing National Museums
11. Conceiving a National Museum in the Federal State 89
12. Museums of a Stateless Nation, between History and Art 131
13. To no one Nation has been given the monopoly of genius” 153
14. Part 3: Education and Role Model
15. Educating the People 163
16. The Two (or Three?) National Museums of Sweden, 1840–1910 171
17. “Ein Nationalmuseum im vollsten und schönsten Sinne des Wortes” 183
18. Balancing the National and the Decorative Arts in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich 195
19. Part 4: Framing and Display Strategies
20. Objects in the Hall of F(r)ame 209
21. Visualizing Historical Greatness 231
22. The Sommerard Museum 255
23. Authors 277