Less is more. Geschiedenis in het Rijksmuseum

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Authors
Publication date 2014
Journal Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden
Volume | Issue number 129 | 1
Pages (from-to) 146-155
Number of pages 10
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
Abstract The central idea behind the newly refurbished Rijksmuseum is to evoke ‘a sense of time, and a sense of beauty’. This prompts the question: what sense of time, and whose sense of beauty has the museum visualised? In what ways, moreover, can public institutions offer visitors a balanced ‘sense of the past’ when ‘beauty’ has served as the main criterion for selecting the objects on display? This essay addresses these questions by exploring the celebrated Dutch Golden Age collections of the Rijksmuseum.
Document type Article
Language Dutch
Published at http://www.persistent-identifier.nl?identifier=urn:nbn:nl:ui:10-1-10-1-110069
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