Great Narratives of the Past Traditions and Revisions in National Museums Conference proceedings from EuNaMus, European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen, Paris 29 June – 1 July & 25-26 November 2011 Dominique Poulot, Felicity Bodenstein & José María Lanzarote Guiral (eds) EuNaMus Report No 4 Great Narratives of the Past Traditions and Revisions in National Museums Conference Proceedings from EuNaMus, European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen, Paris 28 June – 1 July & 25–26 November 2011 Editors Dominique Poulot, Felicity Bodenstein & José María Lanzarote Guiral EuNaMus Report No. 4 Copyright The publishers will keep this document online on the Internet – or its possible replacement – from the date of publication barring exceptional circumstances. 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Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, No. 78 Linköping University Electronic Press Linköping, Sweden, 2012 ISSN: 1650-3686 eISSN: 1650-3740 URL: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp_home/index.en.aspx?issue=078 © The Authors, 2012 This report has been published thanks to the support of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research - Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities theme (contract nr 244305 – Project European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen). The information and views set out in this report are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Cover design: Tove Maria Andersson . Table of Contents Preface. Uses of the Past: Historical Narratives and the Museum Dominique Poulot .................................................................................................................................. 1 Introduction Felicity Bodenstein & Dominique Poulot ......................................................................................... 9 Constructing Narratives in the Museum: Authors and Locations The authored museum: Alternative paradigms for the Historical Museum. Lenoir's Monuments Français and Du Sommerard's Cluny Stephen Bann .......................................................................................................................................... 21 Nordiska Museet and Skansen: Displays of Floating Nationalities Magdalena Hillström .............................................................................................................................. 33 The National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini” in Rome: the Nation on Display Maria Gabriella Lerario .......................................................................................................................... 49 Uses and Exploitation of History. Official History, Propaganda and Mythmaking in Bulgarian Museums Gabriella Petkova-Campbell ................................................................................................................. 69 The importance of place: Intimating History: (re)-furnishing Versailles for Louis-Philippe’s Musée d’histoire de France (1834-1837) Sylvain Cordier ........................................................................................................................................ 81 National Museums as Memorial Places. The Goethehaus Weimar and the Foundation of National Museums in 19th-century Germany Constanze Breuer & Paul Kahl ............................................................................................................ 87 The New Acropolis and the Dynamics of National Museum Development in Greece Christina Ntaflou .................................................................................................................................... 97 Traditions of National Identity Construction National history: Great Narratives or Isolated Statements. History in the Dutch National Museums (1800-1940) Ellinoor Bergvelt .................................................................................................................................... 115 A Nationalist Palimpsest: Authoring the History of the Greek Nation through Alternative Museum Narratives Despina Catapoti .................................................................................................................................... 133 From Royal to National: the Changing Face of the National Museum of Scotland Amy Clarke .............................................................................................................................................. 169 Freedom Loving Northerners: Norwegian Independency as Narrated in Three National Museums Lill Eilertson ............................................................................................................................................ 179 The Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. The Cultural Memory of a Nation without National Borders Frank Matthias Kammel ........................................................................................................................ 217 The Museum of National Antiquities and its National Agenda: an Overview of the 1900-1970 Period Richard Pettersson ................................................................................................................................. 229 Narrating the “New” History: Museums in the Construction of the Turkish Republic Melania Savino ........................................................................................................................................ .253 Colonialism and ethnographic narratives: The City of the Colonial Museums. The Forgotten Case of the Mostra d’Oltremare of Naples Giovanni Arena ...................................................................................................................................... 267 Museology and Ethnography in Italy: an Historical Perspective Maria Anna Bertolino ............................................................................................................................ 285 Rediscovering the Americas: the Making of Latin American Archaeological Collections in Spanish National Museums José María Lanzarote Guiral ................................................................................................................. 297 Tradition and Ethnographic Display: Defining the National Specificity at the National Art Museum in Romania (1906-1937) Iulia Pohrib .............................................................................................................................................. 317 Ethnoscripts and Nationographies: Imagining Nations within Ethnographic Museums in South Central and Eastern Europe Nikolai Vukov ......................................................................................................................................... 331 Intersecting Authorities, Territories and Narratives The regional and the national: Local Religious Art Exhibitions, between Heritage and Evangelization: the Case of Las Edades del Hombre Nathalie Cerezales .................................................................................................................................. 347 Representation and Regionalism. Moderna Museet and the Construction of a Narrative of Swedish Women Artists Martin Sundberg ..................................................................................................................................... 361 The national and the universal: Universal Culture and National Identity: the Configuration of National Museums in Nineteenth-century Hungary Gabor Ébli ............................................................................................................................................... 373 Inverting the Nation at the British Museum Tiffany Jenkins ........................................................................................................................................ 387 A National Historical Narrative in Universal Context: the Historical Mural Cycle of the Hungarian National Museum Miklos Szekely ......................................................................................................................................... 395 Transnational narratives: Musealizing Napoleon (1837-2011): from Traditional Representations to a Dualistic European Master Narrative Felicity Bodenstein ................................................................................................................................. 407 Historical Narratives of the Nation and the Internationalization of Museums: Exhibiting National Art Histories in the Jeu de Paume Museum between the Wars Michela Passini .......................................................................................................................................