The Emotional Museum. Thoughts on the “Secular Relics” of Nineteenth-Century History Museums in Paris and their Posterity

This article examines the discourse elaborated in Paris’ historical museums during the nineteenth century through the display of personal, private objects “having belonged to” famous historical figures, artistes and writers. How and why do we exhibit objects in and of themselves as banal as the hand...

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Main Author: Felicity Bodenstein
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Conserveries Mémorielles 2011-04-01
Series:Conserveries Mémorielles : Revue Transdisciplinaire de Jeunes Chercheurs
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cm/834