Acta Archaeologica Supplementa VIII: Birth of a World MuseumISBN: 978-1-4051-8571-4
Hardcover
340 pages
January 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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- A study of The National Museum of Denmark which celebrated its 200 year anniversary in 2007
- Sees a nation in world context, tracing its roots back to C.J. Thomsen's famous collection on Danish prehistory through to the age of science
- T. B. Jakobsen traces this development in great detail and with a high degree of accuracy until 1848, at the dawn of democracy
- An unusual and thought-provoking collection - no other main European museum is documented to such degree
- A study into a highly important aspect of the Danish "Golden Age" of the days of Søren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen
- Includes comprehensive minutes which hold all information on collection, excavation, conservation, exhibition, economics, studies and visitors
