The Story of Danish Museums 1909.
- Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (80 pages).
- Focus on Danish History ; v.1 .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Title -- The battle of the museums -- From prehistory to people -- The eyes of a stranger -- The dispute -- The National Exhibition -- A Scandinavian idea -- The dream: a merchant-town museum -- Prehistory -- The Wunderkammer and its descendants -- The Norse Museum -- Local museums on the rise -- Müller's model -- Concentration of power -- Bernhard Olsen and the expositions -- The Danish Folk Museum and the Open-Air Museum -- Müller's damning decree -- The battle over applied art -- The National Museum of Denmark -- Swearing to objectivity -- Modern times -- By leaps and bounds On state funding -- The museum boom -- On the Jutland heath -- Pick a theme -- Living history at Hjerl Hede -- Urban history at Den Gamle By -- Prehistory in Aarhus -- Museums about people -- Out with the old -- Way out in Brede -- The Danish museum model -- Back and forth -- Specialties and niches -- People meeting people -- A new old town -- The future -- Know thyself! -- Further reading -- Copyright -- Backcover