European national museums: identity politics, the uses of the past and the European citizen (EuNaMus)
Research group member: Niki Nikonanou
Eunamus was a three-year research project funded under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission. The research was conducted through multi-disciplinary collaboration between eight leading university institutions. The aim of the research strand “Museum citizens”, in which N. Nikonanou participated, focused on the understanding of national museums by the public. A series of case studies considered the ways in which people are active knowledge-producers of nation and citizenship and not only consumers of the museum’s messages. The data was collected through questionnaires and interviews, as well as focus groups in following institutions: Estonian National Museum, Tartu (Estonia), Latvian Open-Air Museum, near Riga (Latvia), German Historical Museum, Berlin (Germany), National Historical Museum of Athens (Greece), Nordiska museet, Stockholm (Sweden), National Museum of Ireland (Collins Barracks branch), Dublin (Ireland), National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, (UK), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Museum of the History of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain).
- Bounia, A., Nikiforidou, A., Nikonanou, N. & Matossian, A. D. (2012). Voices from the Museum: Survey Research in Europe's National Museums, Linkoping University Electronic Press, on line:
- Bounia, A., Nikonanoy, N., Nikiforidou, A., Pitsiava, E. (2016). National Museums: Perspectives of visitors. A pilot research in Byzantine and Christianity Museum, MuseumEdu 3, 171-186.
