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- Title
The Invention of the Multicultural Museum in the Late Nineteenth Century: Ethnography and the Presentation of Cultural Diversity in Central Europe.
- Authors
Johler, Reinhard
- Abstract
This essay deals with establishment of ethnological museums which represents the ethnically, religiously and culturally diverse East Central Europe under the Habsburg monarchy during the 19th-century. These museums provide a prototype model for the development of national museums, the enrichment of anthropological and ethnographic studies and the launch of exhibitions across Europe. The role of the German and Viennese Anthropological Society in the creation of ethnographic schools is cited.
- Subjects
ETHNOLOGICAL museums &; collections; HABSBURG, House of; NATIONAL museums; ANTHROPOLOGICAL research; ETHNOLOGY research
- Publication
Austrian History Yearbook, 2015, Vol 46, p51
- ISSN
0067-2378
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1017/S0067237814000095