The Museum Is Open: Towards a Transnational History of Museums 1750-1940

Mobility - in the broad sense and use of the term - is a major theme in the reflection on art and history today. With its emphasis on processes of influx and reciprocity, it suggests an interpretative approach new to traditional thinking on art history, most often concerned with art in its static state. The Contact Zone series encourages studies focusing on spaces of interaction, transaction and movement of persons and objects, art and ideas, materials and techniques, and on spaces where aesthetic concepts related to the visual arts evolve and develop.