Museums and Patronage

• Introduction
  Histories of museum patronage: three provocations and some novel possibilities
  Scott Anthony and Harry Parker

• Part I Patrons

• 1 From humbug to high culture: P. T. Barnum and the cultural economics of nineteenth-century American museums
  Anna Köhler

• 2 ‘The nature and art of patronage is subtle and delicate’: the Sainsbury family as patrons for Food for Thought: The Sainsbury Gallery at the Science Museum, London
  Emily Rees Koerner

• 3 Life Sciences, travelling exhibitions, audiences and corporate museum ownership: La Caixa’s Barcelona Science Museum, 1981–1993
  Miquel Carandell Baruzzi and Alfons Zarzoso

• Part II Professionals

• 4 A ‘crusade for museums’: education, patronage and the postwar modernisation of the museum at ICOM-UNESCO, 1946-1956
  Thomas Mougey

• 5 Professionalisation and patronage: an analysis of the professional history of the Danish Museum of Science and Technology since the 1950s
  Susanne Krogh Jensen

• 6 The Louvre heist: bureaucratic patronage, managerial failure and the post-cultural state
  Lola Salem

• Part III Politics

• 7 Museums as ‘cultural patrons’: ideology, museology, and industry in Stalinist Poland
  Maksymilian Loth-Hill

• 8 ‘A most altruistic form of advertising’: British cultural policy and the evolving ethics of state patronage
  Scott Anthony

• 9 The Spirit Sings: museum legacies of extraction and activism in Canada
  Camille-Mary Sharp

• Part IV Possibilities

• 10 ‘A valuable insight into the British way of doing things’: the UK Atomic Energy Authority and the possibilities of public-private patronage at Expo 58
  Alice Byrne

• 11 Landscape for a new museum: patronage and urban development at Ironbridge Gorge
  Harry Parker

• 12 Mining heritage and its patrons in the Ruhr Valley, Germany
  Stefan Berger

• Part V Ethics

• Museums and Patronage: a closing roundtable featuring Dinah Casson, Sir Mark Jones, Camilla Rossi-Lindemann, Ines Prieto, Laura Ronzon and Michael Terwey
  Scott Anthony, Alice Byrne and Anwar Tlili

• Afterword: Towards full disclosure? Shifting relationships between patrons and museums
  Sharon Macdonald

PDF: 9781912250806

Hardback: 9781911507994 / 280 pages / 220mm x 144mm

Paperback: 9781912250783 / 280 pages / 216mm x 140mm

Scott Anthony (Editor)

Scott Anthony is Lead, Modern Britain at The National Archives. He was previously Deputy Head of Research & Public History for the Science Museum Group, where he was PI of the Museums and Industry: Long Histories of Collaboration project (MaILHoC). His books include The story of propaganda film (2024), Shell: art and advertising (2021), and Public relations and the making of modern Britain (2012).

Alice Byrne (Editor)

Alice Byrne is the former Co-I of the Museums and Industry: Long Histories of Collaboration project (MaILHoC) at Aix Marseille University where she is a senior lecturer in British Studies. Her current research focuses on international cultural relations in the context of colonialism and decolonisation.

Harry Parker (Editor)

Harry Parker was a Research Fellow on the Museums and Industry: Long Histories of Collaboration project (MaILHoC) and is now a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on the cultural and environmental history of modern Britain.

Subject: History, Social and Cultural History

BISAC codes: ART059000, BUS008000, BUS100000

Thema codes: ABQ, GLZ, JBCC8, KJG

Keywords: Funding, History of Science, Patronage, Sponsorship, ethics, museums