Add to ORKGCurating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. Taken together, these contributions suggest that museums are not just sites for accessing history but need to be considered as historical sites of significance in themselves. Individual essays examine the work of curators in museums in Britain and the colonies, the historical display and interpretation of empire in Britain, and the establishment of 'museum networks' in the British imperial context. Curating empire sheds...
Products of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, museum institutions were created in the Australasi...
PhD ThesisDuring the nineteenth century, when the British Empire was nearing its peak in terms of t...
Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behin...
Book review. While discussions of the relations between museums and empire are now well developed, t...
Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products - from paintings, prints, pho...
Museums were both produced by and producers of the ideals that drove the growth of European empires....
This article examines the British Museum’s imperialist attitudes towards classical heritage. Despite...
The British Museum has a long and complex relationship with the British Colonial project. Applying ...
What can objects reveal about the motivations behind and impact of Britain’s conquest and colonisati...
This paper examines the virtual invisibility of colonial art in British art museums today, despite a...
The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenber...
Imperial history in general received very little attention in British universities until the 1950s. ...
By the first half of the twentieth century, vast numbers of the UK’s towns and cities had formed the...
Illustrating Empire tells the history of the British Empire through the ephemeral images used to pro...
During the nineteenth century, when the British Empire was nearing its peak in terms of territory an...
Products of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, museum institutions were created in the Australasi...
PhD ThesisDuring the nineteenth century, when the British Empire was nearing its peak in terms of t...
Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behin...
Book review. While discussions of the relations between museums and empire are now well developed, t...
Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products - from paintings, prints, pho...
Museums were both produced by and producers of the ideals that drove the growth of European empires....
This article examines the British Museum’s imperialist attitudes towards classical heritage. Despite...
The British Museum has a long and complex relationship with the British Colonial project. Applying ...
What can objects reveal about the motivations behind and impact of Britain’s conquest and colonisati...
This paper examines the virtual invisibility of colonial art in British art museums today, despite a...
The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenber...
Imperial history in general received very little attention in British universities until the 1950s. ...
By the first half of the twentieth century, vast numbers of the UK’s towns and cities had formed the...
Illustrating Empire tells the history of the British Empire through the ephemeral images used to pro...
During the nineteenth century, when the British Empire was nearing its peak in terms of territory an...
Products of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, museum institutions were created in the Australasi...
PhD ThesisDuring the nineteenth century, when the British Empire was nearing its peak in terms of t...
Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behin...