Description:
- First pan-European study of processes of transnationalization and Europeanization of history/anthropology museums in Europe.
- Strongly interdisciplinary account of changing museum landscape in Europe, drawing in particular on social sciences, contemporary history, museum/cultural studies and anthropology.
- Based on wide-ranging research including visits to nearly 100 museums and more than 60 interviews with cultural policy-makers and museum practitioners.
Brief description:
Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth in England and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. He has been Visiting Senior Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, and the University of Edinburgh. His most recent book is Writing the Rules for Europe. Experts, Cartels, and International Organizations (2014, with J. Schot).
Review Quotes:
"Exhibiting Europe marks the first critical analysis of the process of Europeanization of museums. I recommend the book to anyone interested in Europe and museum practitioners." - H-Soz-Kult
"This study is an impressive synthesis in clear accessible language of the complex process of Europeanization of museums. It illuminates the connections between European debates and practices in academia, the public, politics and museums." - Werkstatt Geschichte
"I recommend this book as a meticulous and illuminating history of the development of the European ideal, the political background to the European Parliament's House of European History to be opened in 2015, and as an insightful examination of the thoughts and arguments of pro-Europeans and how history is understood, by some politicians, as an Orwellian instrument to control the masses." - Museum Anthropology