Use 8 ideas, people, places, institutions, publications etc… to create a timeline of museum history, about 200 words for each idea using the following key terms list. Fully identify the term and its significance to the narrative/argument you are making. Overall, the timeline should tell a story about how museums are tools of nationalism at different times. they are symbols of national honor and different attempts were made to enhance that characteristic. Choose your timeline entries strategically to support your story. Use the following key term list. Treasury of the Abbey Church of St Denis

Abbot Suger

Treasury of the Church of San Marco in Venice

relics/reliquary

offerings

hoard/booty/spoils

funeral goods

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Filarete, Treatise on Architecture, 1464

Studiolo of Piero and Lorenzo (‘the Magnificent’) de Medici, mid-late 15th c

(from Thornton) gentilezza; nobilità civile; otium (studious leisure)

Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro in Urbino, 1470s

Renaissance humanism

Petrarch

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Cabinet of Curiosity / Chamber of Wonders (museo, teatro, microcosm, gallery, gazophylacium, study, wonder cabinet, memory theater, Kunstkammer—derived from Kunst (art) and Kam­ mer (room or chamber)—Wunderkammer (wonder room), Schatzkammer (treasure room), studiolo, and cabinet de curieux). Simmons p. 72

naturalia

artificialia

miracula

Samuel von Quiccheberg, Inscriptiones, 1565

Francesco Calzolari, Museum Calceolarium, (collection in existence by 1557, catalog published in 1622)

Ferrante Imperato, Dell’Historia Naturalia, book published in 1599

Ulisse Aldrovandi

Francis Bacon

Athanasius Kircher, Collegio romano museo, 1651 - Catalog is Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum, 1678

Claude du Molinet, Cabinet of the Abbey of Sainte Genevieve, after 1675 - 1692 catalog Claude du Molinet, Le cabinet de la Bibliothèque de Sainte Genevieve

John Tradescant, Museum Tradescantianum, by 1634 - 1656 catalog



(also for an example of a cabinet of curiosity that is an actual cabinet see: Augsburg Art Cabinet, Germany, 1632 see: https://www.gustavianum.uu.se/gustavianum-eng/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/the-augsburg-art-cabinetLinks to an external site.

We will not look at today but will be important later: Hans Sloane, Cabinet of Curios, London, England, 1741 (became one of the founding collections of the British Museum)

We will see today but will be more important later: Nehemiah Grew, Musaeum Regalis Societatis, 1686

coral

snake stone

the Ensisheim meteorite

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Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert, Encyclopédie (Encyclopedia or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts), published between 1751 and 1772; the Encyclopédistes

University of Padua Botanic Garden, begun in 1545

Jardin des Plantes (formerly Jardin du Roi), Paris, France, opened to public in 1640 under the direction of Guy de la Brosse; taken over by Comte de Buffon in 1739. Buffon is author of Histoire Naturelle, 1749; Jardin des Plantes is part of the National Museum of Natural History which also includes a zoo, gallery for minerals etc…

Garden of Linnaeus, Uppsala, Sweden, 1741; Carolus Linnaeus aka Carl von Linne, Systema Naturae, published 1735

Nehemiah Grew, Museum Regalis Societatis, 1681

classification

taxonomy

systematics

binomial nomenclature

Physic garden

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Giorgio Vasari



Padre Carlo Lodoli

Louvre Museum (formerly a palace, site of Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1692), opened as a national museum in 1793, rehung by Dominique Vivant Denon for the 1801 reopening (briefly known as the Musée Napoleon from 1803 to 1814 when Napoleon was forced to abdicate the throne)…esp. looking at the Grande Galerie

Luxembourg palace hanging, Paris, 1750

Electoral Gallery in Düsseldorf (opened 1714, rehung by Lambert Krahe in 1756; the new hang published in a 1778 catalog by Nicolas de Pigage, Christian von Mechel and Jean-Charles Laveaux)

Imperial Picture Gallery for public showing (located in the Upper Belvedere palace in Vienna), organized and catalogued by Christian von Mechel in 1781

“Art historical hang”

“Connoisseurial hang”

Old master paintings

Historicism



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Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753)

Augustus Henry Layard

Sir Joseph Banks

Cook’s Pacific Voyages, HMS Endeavor 1768

British Museum

Montagu House

Lieutenant Edward Belcher

Sir John Lubbock

Queen Victoria (1837-1901); Rudyard Kipling, “White Man’s Burden” (be more important in our discussion of colonization and colonial museums)



ideology = a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy (so -> public sphere)



episteme = a system of understanding, collective presuppositions that defines the nature and sets the bounds of what is accepted as “true knowledge” (so -> intellectual sphere)

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Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce aka The Royal Society of Arts, established 1753

Sir Henry Cole

Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, Hyde Park, London, England, 1851

Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, 1851, Joseph Paxton (architect)

Queen Victoria

Prince Albert

From Bennett article:

Panopticon: a type of institutional building designed to allow all prisoners in an institution to be observed by a single security guard (without knowing when they are under surveillance and when not)

Panorama: in the mid 19th century a 360 degree visual medium patented by artist Robert Barker in 1787 as “Apparatus for Exhibiting Pictures”; He created one in London’s Leicester Square which was open to the public between 1793-1863

Exhibitionary Complex

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Asiatic Society of Bengal

Museum of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, 1814 > becomes Indian Museum in 1875
Ladislau Netto, Museu Nacional

Hermann Konrad Burmeiste, Museo Publico

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“Scramble for Africa” & Berlin Conference 1884 (Otto von Bismarck)



Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire (IFAN) Museum of African Arts 1938 > Musée d’Art Africain 1960 (in a new building near National Assembly of Senegal > Théodore Monod African Art Museum, 2007 > today one of the regular locations used in the Dakar Biennale showing art by contemporary African and diaspora artists

“tribal paradigm” for classifying African arts



Théodore Monod

Alexandre Senou Adande

Benin bronzes - British Punitive Expedition of 1897

National Museums of Kenya –

Nairobi National Museum founded 1910 (flagship of the National Museums);

independence mid 20th c (add more exact date)

Arthur Loveridge – first curator of Nairobi Museum

Karen Blixon Museum becomes part of National Museums of Kenya in 1985

effective occupation

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Thomas Jefferson, Monticello

Charles Willson Peale, Philadelphia Museum

Phineas Taylor Barnum, American Museum

Mastodon

Lewis and Clark Expedition

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John D Rockefeller Jr

Henry Ford

Mount Vernon Ladies Association (MVLA)

Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and Sons of the American Revolution

Daughters of the Confederacy

Mt Vernon

Colonial Williamsburg

Greenfield Village

Confederate Monument

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)

International Coalition of the Sites of Conscience

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difficult history

Out of Africa exhibition

Mining the Museum

Anacostia Community Museum

Wickham House

Harriet Tubman Museum and Visitor Center

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Carter Godwin Woodson

Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Margaret Taylor Burroughs and Charles Burroughs

DuSable Museum of African American History and Culture

South Side Community Art Center

The Rat: Man’s Invited Affliction