1. 7. Museums and the nation-state Bibliography : Bennett, Tony. The Birth of the Museum : History, Theory, Politics. New York: Routledge, 1995 Conn, Steven, Museums and American intellectual life, 1876-1926, the University of Chicago Press, London 1998 Poulot, Dominique, une histoire des musées de France, XVIIIe-XXe siècles, Paris, La Découverte, coll. « L’espace de l’Histoire », 2005

2. 1. How do museums contribute to the nation-building effort ? 2. When did museums become a nation- building tool ? 3. Museums and urban planning : the geography of national prestige

3. The Rosetta Stone, British Museum (above) The Ishtar Gate, Pergamon Museum (right)

4. Mona Lisa by L. da Vinci, Le Louvre (left) Starry Night, V. van Gogh, MoMA (below)

5. Mary, Queen of Scots, c. 1610, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edimburgh (right) George Washington, 1796 (left) National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

6. The Spirit of Saint Louis, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC Apollo capsule, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC

7. Discus thrower, National Roman Museum, Palazzo Massimo (below) Aztec calendar stone Mexico’s anthropology museum

8. Museum Island, Berlin

9. National Mall, Washington, DC