Research Catalog

Title

Museumsøen : Berlins museer fra romantisk klassicisme til oplevelsesøkonomi / Jan Bo Hansen.

Author

Hansen, Jan Bo, 1948-

Publication

[Frederiksberg] : Jacoby & Schlegel, [2023]

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Details

Description

273 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plans, portraits; 23 cm

Summary

• Museum Island in Berlin contains some of the world's richest collections of archeology and visual arts. While other museums were based on noble and princely treasures, the Berlin ones were scientifically based - something the museum people were very proud of. The collections in Berlin were built according to a plan laid out by museum staff. However, the original intention quickly disappeared. What was science also changed. In its place came a restless collection of works of art and architectural monuments. After the First World War, the collecting mania was replaced by the more modest hope of keeping together what was collected. And of the original idea for the museum, which was crystal clear to the original builders, there is not much left. Jan Bo Hansen (b. 1948) has a M.Sc. degree in German and history and has for many years written about Germany in the daily newspaper Information and Weekendavisen. He has previously published books about the German capital: Berlin (1997), Berlin as German Federal Capital (2000) and The Wall. The Story of a Political Building (2009)
• "Museumsøen i Berlin rummer nogle af verdens rigeste samlinger af arkæologi og billedkunst. Mens andre museer byggede på adelige og fyrstelige skatte, var de berlinske videnskabeligt funderede - noget museumsfolkene var meget stolte af. Samlingerne i Berlin var opbygget efter en plan, lagt af museumsfolk. Den oprindelige hensigt forsvandt dog hurtigt. Hvad der var videnskab ændrede sig også. I stedet kom en rastløs indsamling af kunstværker og arkitekturmonumenter. Efter Første verdenskrig blev samlermanien erstattet af det mere beskedne håb om at holde sammen på det indsamlede. Og af den oprindelige idé med museet, der stod lysende klart for de oprindelige bygherrer, er der ikke meget tilbage.Jan Bo Hansen (f. 1948) er cand. mag i tysk og historie og har gennem mange år skrevet om Tyskland i dagbladet Information og Weekendavisen. Han har tidligere udgivet bøger om den tyske hovedstad: Berlin (1997), Berlin som tysk forbundshovedstad (2000) og Muren. Historien om et politisk bygningsværk (2009)."

Alternative Title

Berlins museer fra romantisk klassicisme til oplevelsesøkonomi

Subject

• Museums > Germany > Berlin > History
• Musées > Allemagne > Berlin > Histoire
• Museumsinsel (Berlin, Germany) > Buildings, structures, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9788797435700
• 8797435708

OCLC

• on1407407640
• 1407407640
• SCSB-14648619

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries