RT Article
T1 Social Practices in Museums: Near and Middle Eastern Historical Dimensions
JF Handling religious things
SP 69
OP 82
A1 Beinhauer-Köhler, Bärbel 1967-
LA English
PP Philipps-Universität Marburg
PB Georg Olms Verlag
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1847197825
AB A modern museum evokes a certain imaginary, with a history going back to private and less systematic collections, such as cabinets of curiosities. Stimulated by European Enlightenment ideas, the modern museum developed into a semi-public institution regulated by modern nation states in the 19th century. Unlike cabinets of curiosities, modern museums exhibit objects in order to convey certain ideas and systems of knowledge.1 To contribute to the general debate on what makes a museum, this paper will focus on the history of Near and Middle Eastern institutions, considering socio-material practices that are normally thought to characterise modern museums. The paper is inspired by recent studies that have successfully traced certain markers of modernity, such as individuality, secularity, or atheism, to pre-modern times and non-European regions.
SN 9783487160771
SN 3487160773
DO 10.17192/es2022.0086