The failed technology museum of Catalonia : Engineers and the politics of the Musealization of Technology in Barcelona (1929-1939)
Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
Sastre-Juan, Jaume (Universidade de Lisboa)

Date:	2019
Description:	27 pàg.
Abstract:	In March 1937, the Technology Museum of Catalonia was created by a governmental order, but it never materialized. How come was a national museum of technology perceived as an urgent need in the midst of the Spanish Civil War? This article explores how this failed attempt was rooted in the long-standing political interest of the engineering community in the musealization of technology in Barcelona. On the one hand, it analyses the tradition of technological display aimed at increasing industrial productivity and improving technical education. On the other hand, it studies the techno-nationalist efforts by engineers to construct a respectable technological past for the nation through display. Finally, it explores how these two approaches would have been articulated in the Technology Museum of Catalonia in the context of the key role played by engineering professionals during the Spanish Civil War.
Note:	Ajuts: Programa de Formación del Profesorado Universitario (AP2007-01538); "Mathematics and Engineering: new critical viewpoints, XVI-XX centuries" (HAR2016-75871-R); "Del gabinete de maravillas al museo anatómico popular: regímenes de exhibición y cultura material de la medicina, siglos XVII-XX" (HAR2015-64313-P); Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/BPD/93264/2013 and UID/HIS/00286/2013)
Rights:	Tots els drets reservats.
Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Museums of technology ; Spanish Civil War ; Techno-nationalism
Published in:	Nuncius, Vol. 34 Núm. 1 (2019) , p. 128-154, ISSN 1825-3911

DOI: 10.1163/18253911-03401005

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