The Museum Is Open: Towards a Transnational History of Museums 1750-1940 - Contact Zones New edition

Marc Notes: Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory - all of these composite designations have come into our parlance in recent years. Above all, this expanding terminology underscores the growing scholarly interest in museums. In this new scholarship, a recurring assertion is that as an institution, the museum has largely functioned as a venue for the formation of specifically national identities. This volume, by contrast, highlights the museum as a product of transnational processes of exchange, focusing on the period from ca. 1750 to 1940.

Contributor Bio:  Meyer, Andrea ANDREA MEYER has written about film, entertainment and social trends for "Variety", "Time Out New York", "Interview", "Village Voice, ""Glamour", and the "New York Post", the "Daily News "and the popular film Web site indieWIRE. After living in New York for thirteen years, Andrea moved to Los Angeles with her new husband and their two cats (none of whom she met in the roommate wanted ads).