The British Public and the British Museum

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ISBN9781399523752
AutoresJordan Kistler
EditoraEdinburgh University Press
FormatoCapa dura
Número de páginas288
Peso (kg)0,604
Data de Publicação31/05/2026
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Imposto€ 7,13
Preço (iva inc.)€ 125,90
Disponibilidade3 unidades em armazém externo

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This book is a timely intervention in the history of museums in Britain. BP’s ongoing sponsorship of the British Museum, the appointment of George Osborne as a trustee and the Museum’s continued resistance to the repatriation of holdings such as the Parthenon Marbles and the Benin Bronzes have brought questions of the Museum’s funding, leadership and right to the objects in its collection to increased public attention. The book reveals this is not a recent ‘woke’ agenda but rather part of a long history of public resistance and activism enacted through the British Museum. It presents a cultural history of the nineteenth-century British Museum, departing from traditional institutional histories by centring public perception of the museum’s purpose and its uses in society.