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Journal of the History of Collections Advance Access published online on September 8, 2006
Journal of the History of Collections, doi:10.1093/jhc/fhl019
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Migrating objects

Claudia Schweizer *

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Claudia Schweizer, E-mail: c.schweizer{at}gmx.at


  Abstract

The Bohemian National Museum was officially founded in 1822. It had been under preparation since 1818 by its founders, Kaspar Sternberg (1761-1838) and Franz Sternberg-Manderscheid (1764-1830), with the intention of preserving the nation's cultural heritage of scientific and historical collections so as to form a national monument as well as to enhance the population's awareness of their national identity. Research programmes on the collections were co-ordinated with those of other institutions and scientists within and beyond the Habsburg monarchy. Such co-operation, mainly scientific, rather than cultural, was often carried out without official sanction and formed the beginnings of ‘extra-museal’ scientific networking in central Europe. This paper traces the paths of the collected specimens from their accession to their publication; it also analyses the implication of scientific networks in terms of their benefit to the Museum's scientific collections and its position as a national status symbol.


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