Exhibiting Europe in Museums

Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth in England and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. He has been Visiting Senior Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, and the University of Edinburgh. His most recent book is Writing the Rules for Europe. Experts, Cartels, and International Organizations (2014, with J. Schot).

• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: Exhibiting Europe? Europeanisation as Cultural PracticeChapter 1. Musealising Europe: Compensation, Negotiation, and the Conquest of the FutureChapter 2. Governing Europe: State Institutions and European Cultural and Museum PolicyChapter 3. Networking Europe: Societal Actors in the Europeanisation of the Museum FieldChapter 4. Collecting Europe: Strategies and Challenges in Transnational Collection PracticeChapter 5. Narrating Europe: The Story and Stories of European IntegrationChapter 6. Crossing Europe: Migration and Mobility in Museal SpacesConclusion: Exhibiting Europe: The Practice of Europeanisation in MuseumsInterviewsMuseums and ExhibitionsBibliography

“Exhibiting Europe marks the first critical analysis of the process of Europeanization of museums. I recommend the book to anyone interested in Europe and museum practitioners.” · H-Soz-Kult“This study is an impressive synthesis in clear accessible language of the complex process of Europeanization of museums. It illuminates the connections between European debates and practices in academia, the public, politics and museums.” · Werkstatt Geschichte“I recommend this book as a meticulous and illuminating history of the development of the European ideal, the political background to the European Parliament’s House of European History to be opened in 2015, and as an insightful examination of the thoughts and arguments of pro-Europeans and how history is understood, by some politicians, as an Orwellian instrument to control the masses.” · Museum Anthropology