Acta Archaeologica Supplementa: Birth of a World Museum, Volume 78

A study of The National Museum of Denmark which celebrated its 200 year anniversary in 2007. * Sees a nation in world context, tracing its roots back to C.J. Thomsen's famous collection on Danish prehistory through to the age of science * T. B. Jakobsen traces this development in great detail and with a high degree of accuracy until 1848, at the dawn of democracy * An unusual and thought-provoking collection - no other main European museum is documented to such degree * A study into a highly important aspect of the Danish "Golden Age" of the days of Soren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen * Includes comprehensive minutes which hold all information on collection, excavation, conservation, exhibition, economics, studies and visitors