Paleizen van het volk. Stemmen voor de democratisering van het museumbezoek in België (1860-1914)

Palaces of the people. Lobbying on behalf of the democratisation of museum visits in Belgium (1860-1914) In the second half of the nineteenth century Belgian museums increasingly came under fire. They were heavily criticized for having become lifeless institutions that failed to fulfil their educational role. The mundane and overcrowded manner in which they presented their collections and their failure to provide any background information for visitors concerning their exhibits resulted in them being viewed as rather boring establishments by most people. A handful of museum reformers who wante... Mehr ...