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8 The Germanisches Nationalmuseum: Antiquitates and Cultural History in the Museum
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Published:April 2017
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This chapter discusses the significance of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Its founding made good Spon's claim that a historical argument could be told through artifacts at least as well as it could through books. It followed Klemm's vision of a museum of cultural history, albeit devoted to a single nation and not the entire world. There was also a political argument: the museum was a place of learning that was open to the people in a way that a scholarly literature was not. The chapter emphasizes that the story of the museum's founding and early years is an important subject for historians of scholarship and the museum alike, but also for museum practitioners thinking about the nature of their enterprise.
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