Author: Statens historiska museum (Stockholm, Sweden)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
A Guide to the National Historical Museum, Stockholm
Author: Statens historiska museum (Stockholm, Sweden)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
The National Historical Museum, Stockholm
Author: Statens historiska museum (Stockholm, Sweden)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A Guide to the National Historical Museum, Stockholm
Author: Stockholm (Sweden). Statens historiska museum och myntkabinettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historical museums
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Historical Museum (Stockholm Sweden)
Author: Historical Museum (Stockholm Sweden)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ancient Scandinavia
Author: T. Douglas PricePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019023198X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Scandinavia, a land mass comprising the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, was the last part of Europe to be inhabited by humans. Not until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, about 13,000 BC, did the first humans arrive and settle in the region. The archaeological record of these prehistoric cultures, much of it remarkably preserved in Scandinavia's bogs, lakes, and fjords, has given us a detailed portrait of the evolution of human society at the edge of the inhabitable world. In this book, distinguished archaeologist T. Douglas Price provides a history of Scandinavia from the arrival of the first humans to the end of the Viking period, ca. AD 1050. The first book of its kind in English in many years, Ancient Scandinavia features overviews of each prehistoric epoch followed by illustrative examples from the region's rich archaeology. An engrossing and comprehensive picture of change across the millennia emerges, showing how human society evolved from small bands of hunter-gatherers to large farming communities to the complex warrior cultures of the Bronze and Iron Ages, cultures which culminated in the spectacular rise of the Vikings at the end of the prehistoric period. The material evidence of these past societies--arrowheads from reindeer hunts, megalithic tombs, rock art, beautifully wrought weaponry, Viking warships--give vivid testimony to the ancient peoples of Scandinavia and to their extensive contacts with the remote cultures of the Arctic Circle, Western Europe, and the Mediterranean
Islamic Art Collections
Author: Karin AdahlPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136113541
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
An annotated index and general orientation of Islamic art collections in museums, libraries, other institutions and on private hands. Includes a short description of each collection, its main characteristics, documentation, publications and exhibitions.
Museums, Migration and Cultural Diversity
Author: Christina JohanssonPublisher: StudienVerlag
ISBN: 3706557428
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Historically, an important role of museums has been to contribute to national homogenization. The book specifically deals with how the Swedish museum sector of culture and history addresses new demands from a society that is profoundly characterized by migration and cultural diversity. Besides the museums' representations of migration and cultural diversity, the book also examines how changes in the museum sector relate to general policy developments in the fields of culture, integration and minorities. The book also discusses whether and how museums are open for dialogue and collaboration with migrants and ethnic minorities and the kinds of problems museums encounter in their efforts to be more inclusive.
Archaeologists and the Dead
Author: Howard WilliamsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198753535
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Papers from two conference sessions: the first took place at Easter 2010 as part of the Southport IfA annual conference, the second in December 2010 at the Bristol TAG conference.
Heritage and Museums
Author: J.M. FladmarkPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317741927
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Papers from the 1999 conference by the Museum of Scotland. Aims to generate international comparison and debate about interpretation and presentation of heritage assets, and to examine the role of museums in shaping national identity.
National Museums
Author: Simon KnellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317723139
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
National Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book reveals how these national museums have been used to create a sense of national self, place the nation in the arts, deal with the consequences of political change, remake difficult pasts, and confront those issues of nationalism, ethnicity and multiculturalism which have come to the fore in national politics in recent decades. National Museums combines research from both leading and new researchers in the fields of history, museum studies, cultural studies, sociology, history of art, media studies, science and technology studies, and anthropology. It is an interrogation of the origins, purpose, organisation, politics, narratives and philosophies of national museums.