ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book investigates how images of Norden as a supranational identity have provided, and continue to provide, arenas for negotiating cultural understandings of community beyond the national in specific public contexts. It shows how a transnational dimension of identity has become an asset for negotiating collaboration and consensus rather than feeding conflicts and legitimizing claims on territorial realms. The book demonstrates the value of a cross-disciplinary approach and an investigation of Nordic performances beyond the Scandinavian peninsula. Museums and everyday practice play important roles in performing Nordic spaces. Museums should be understood not only as collections, institutions and places to visit, but also as practices by which heritage is shaped. A range of Nordic museums established in the nineteenth century expressed the most elaborate and explicit statements of cultural Scandinavianism and Nordic community.
