Enlightenment museums: universal or merely global?

This article tests the case set out by the 2002 Declaration, signed by many of the great museums of the world, and elaborated by Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum (BM), that these are universal institutions whose displays enable visitors ‘to see the world as one’ and hence promote a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mark O’Neill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Leicester 2004-11-01
Series:Museum & Society
Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/49