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- Title
Kuifje in het Rijksmuseum.
- Authors
VAN BRUAENE, ANNE-LAURE
- Abstract
The Netherlands and Belgium share a long past, but they look at their history in very different ways. The idea of a genuinely national museum for history is almost absurd in federal Belgium, whereas the Netherlands has managed to restore the Rijksmuseum in all its glory. It offers an occasion for Belgians, while being slightly envious, to ask those questions that the Rijksmuseum seems to ignore. What is the exact relation between history and national identity? Can you renovate a building that is the outcome of a nineteenth-century ideological struggle without revealing its many layers to its visitors? Is it sufficient to physically juxtapose more ordinary objects with works that belong to the national artistic canon in order to be able to speak of a dialogue between history and art? While full of admiration for the aesthetics of the new Rijksmuseum this contribution argues for a more constructivist approach with attention to the rough side of national history.
- Subjects
RIJKSMUSEUM (Netherlands); BELGIAN colonies; IDENTITY politics; EXHIBITIONS
- Publication
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2014, Vol 129, Issue 1, p136
- ISSN
0165-0505
- Publication type
Exhibition Review
- DOI
10.18352/bmgn-lchr.9441