Museums and modernity: art galleries and the making of modern culture

Part I museums and modernity in Europe and England

Introduction

From court to state: the emergence of national art museums in continental Europe

'the peculiarities of the English': the formation of the National Gallery, London

Part II art, society and the birth of the National Gallery of Scotland

Stirrings of the modern: art, civil society and the Scottish Enlightenment

The birth of the National Gallery of Scotland, 1800-59

The high within and the low without: the social production of aesthetic space in the National Gallery of Scotland, 1859-70.