ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the case of the Georgian National Museum from the perspective of museum professionals - registrars, guides, exhibition managers/curators - in the context of everyday nationalism. It investigates the official narratives around the discourse by policymakers and those involved in the transmission of political ideas. The chapter explores the synergy between a nationalizing attempt by the political elites and the passive resistance by civil servants who, in some cases, cannot live with some changes. It focuses on the dynamics and forces resulting from contrasting, and somehow conflictual, discourses of national identity performed by the elites and civil servants working in a museum. The chapter also focuses on people directly involved in these 'acts' and producing and reproducing nationhood. It considers the museum as a place where nationalism is practiced daily and its staff as 'practitioners' of nationalism.
