1. Historiography, connoisseurship and museum space -- 2. Interior decoration and historicism in the art museum -- 3. Museum architecture and moral improvement -- 4. Typology in the London museums and their collections -- 5. Museums and their builders in nineteenth century Britain -- 6. Debating the national gallery -- 7. Refiguring the national gallery -- 8. Negotiating the construction of the national gallery -- 9. The development of the Barry rooms -- 10. The enlarged national gallery in 1876 -- App. National gallery reconstitution, 1855
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