This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918. The chapters focus on two related spaces the domestic interior and its imagery and exhibitions and museums that display both nationalimperial identity and the otherness that lurks beyond a countrys borders. What is revealed is that the same tension operates in these private and public realms namely that between identification and selfprojection on the one hand and alienation otherness and objectification on the other. In unco