Antiquity on Display

• Provides an introduction to the history of Berlin's Museum Island in the nineteenth century.
• Each chapter focuses on a set of museum displays, reconstructions or case studies, and can be read individually
• Beautifully illustrated throughout with 99 black and white illustrations, as well as 8 colour plates.

Readership: For students and scholars of art history, architectural history, museum studies, archaeology, and European and postcolonial studies. Also of interest to museum professionals and those interested in historic preservation and museum reconstructions.

Can Bilsel, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art, Architecture and Art History, University of San Diego

Can Bilsel is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, Architecture and Art History at the University of San Diego. He is also the founding director of the University of San Diego's Architecture Program.

List of Figures
List of Plates
Introduction
1: No place like Greece: Berlin s Museum Island and architectures of history
2: Reconstructing Pergamon: Antique fragments and modern visions
3: Berlin s imperial museum: The problem of style
4: Reconstructing Babylon: The return of the archaic
5: Architecture in the Museum: Monuments for a Mass Spectacle
Epilogue: Regimes of the authentic Bibliography
Index