A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. The museum can thereby be directly linked to the site and its history. It is therefore vital to investigate the maritime museums in terms of relationships between landscape, architecture, museum and collections. This volume unravels the kinds of worlds and realities the Nordic maritime museums stage, which identities and national myths they depict, and how they make use of both the surrounding maritime environments and the architectural properties of the museum buildings.
Introduction: The Maritime Museum in Time and Space
Part I: The Museum in the Landscape and the Landscape in the Museum
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1. A Phenomenological Journey
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2. Ancient and Modern Ideals Entwined
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3. Human and Ocean Land and Sea
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4. New Museum Old Architecture
Part II: Staged Storyscapes
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5. In the Waves of the Ocean and the Depths of Emotion
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6. Men of Iron and Women of Wood
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7. Worldviews and Images of the World
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8. Global Trade and Cultural Encounters
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9. A World without Borders but with High Walls
Conclusion: How Maritime Museums (re)Present the World
References
Annika Bünz is a senior lecturer in Museology at the Dept. of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå University, Sweden. She has a PhD in archaeology and multidisciplinary expertise in museum studies, visual culture studies, phenomenological architectural theory, and gender studies. She has previously published: Is it enough to make the main characters female? An Intersectional and Social Semiotic Reading of the Exhibition Prehistories 1 at the National Historical Museum in Stockholm, Sweden in Robin Skeates (ed.) Museums and Archaeology. The research presented in this book has been financed by a research grant from the Swedish Research Council.
