Public‐private Support of the Arts and German Cultural Policy

McIsaac, Peter M.

doi:10.1080/10286630701683276

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“…Artworks as museum objects have been interpreted in an inseparable manner by amateurs, such as private collectors, or by art market professionals, and by those who are often perceived as their enemies or rivals: the curators of the museumsyet all of them in fact claim to be 'friends' of these objects. The case of one of the most famous museum directors in Europe, Wilhelm Bode (1845Bode ( -1929, illustrates well the intersection of the private collectors' space and the curator's museum (McIsaac 2007). However, the private possessions of collectors could be the pretext for important confrontations with the national collection in terms of social legitimacy.…”

Section: The Legacy Of the Civil Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

National Museums and Nation-Building in Europe 1750–2010

Aronsson¹,

Elgenius

2014

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Europe's national museums have been at the centre of on-going nation-making processes, since their creation. These museums have successfully negotiated conflicts and contradictions to obtain the support of citizens and taxpayers, domestic and foreign visitors, scientists, art connoisseurs, and policy makers. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess the national museum as a manifestation of cultural and political desires, rather than a straightforward representation of the historical facts of a nation.Examining the degree to which national museums have created models and representations of nations, their past, present and future, this book proceeds to assess the consequences of such attempts. Revealing how different types of nations and statesformer empires, monarchies, republics, pre-modern, modern or post-imperial entitiesdeploy and prioritise different types of museums in their making, it constitutes the first comprehensive and comparative perspective on national museums in Europe and their intricate relationship to the making of nations and states. significant aspects of national museums in Europe, including nation-and statebuilding, museum policy and visitor experience. The European Commission made the collaboration of eight universities possible. This programme built on a previous series of international conferences supported by Marie Curie and Namu -Making National Museums, which created an extensive network of both senior researchers and PhD students from around the world. The partners of Eunamus are hereby thanked and acknowledged for their enthusiasm, extensive planning and the demanding management of this exciting research programme. We are grateful to the dedication of the six partners -

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Section: The Legacy Of the Civil Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

National Museums and Nation-Building in Europe 1750–2010

Aronsson¹,

Elgenius

2014

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“…As earned income may be mentioned ticket sales and entrance fees, museum shop sales, restaurant and café sales, licenses, and rental and deposition fees. (1) Tax deduction or tax relief regulations for donations and sponsorship, as does the levels of indirect and direct public support to the sector vary significantly across countries (Hughes and Luksetich 1999;Schuster 1999;Leclair and Gordon 2000;Negussie 2006;McIsaac 2007;Hughes and Luksetich 2008;Rushton 2008). Overall public and private support to the museum sector has increased in the last decades, apart from a period in the early 1990s (Bises and Padovano 2004;Bodo and Spada 2004;Selwood 2001;Månsson 2008), and it is clear that both reductions in support to the sector as well as increases are politically guided (Moen 1997).…”

Section: The Structure Of Museum Finances: Incomementioning

confidence: 99%