The chapter explores the diffusion of museums around the globe. It draws upon world systems and globalization theory to argue that we can understand this as the diffusion of an institutionalized form which seeks to realize the world in its organization. This is explored particularly in relation to cosmological models of order in early museums and the role of museums in the process of nation building; and the argument is illustrated through contemporary examples from the National Museum of Sri Lanka.
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