TY - JOUR

T1 - Nation and National Museums, a Contested Relationship: An Analysis of US National Museums in the Twenty-first Century

AU - Drengwitz, Beatrice

AU - Elbers, Benjamin

AU - Jahn, Lisa Debora

AU - Wrogemann, Irmela

PY - 2014/1

Y1 - 2014/1

N2 - The motivation for this article arose from the wish to share our outside perspectives on how national museums in the U.S. mediate ideas of national identity. We are four students out of a larger group of 15 German students in Cultural Studies at Leuphana University of Lueneburg. We conducted empiricalresearch on various national museums within the Smithsonian Institution and also on the soon-to-be-opened National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York City. The objective of our research was to explore the role that American national museums play in a globalized world by investigating how such museums address changing national identities over time

AB - The motivation for this article arose from the wish to share our outside perspectives on how national museums in the U.S. mediate ideas of national identity. We are four students out of a larger group of 15 German students in Cultural Studies at Leuphana University of Lueneburg. We conducted empiricalresearch on various national museums within the Smithsonian Institution and also on the soon-to-be-opened National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York City. The objective of our research was to explore the role that American national museums play in a globalized world by investigating how such museums address changing national identities over time

KW - Science of art

U2 - 10.1111/cura.12053

DO - 10.1111/cura.12053

M3 - Comments / Debate / Reports

VL - 57

SP - 97

EP - 106

JO - Curator

JF - Curator

SN - 0011-3069

IS - 1

ER -