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Upon opening in 1901, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum provided a permanent home for Glasgow's growing civic collection of fine art, natural history, industrial and archaeological objects. The original displays remained largely intact until a major renovation, restoration and re-hang, carried out under the banner of the Kelvingrove New Century Project (KNCP), was initiated following the museum's centenary. This paper explores the complicated relationship Kelvingrove has with its own heritage, something it shares with other museums similarly established during the museum building boom of the late-Victorian period. It addresses this interaction between past and present, offering a study of the recent renovation that is grounded in a consideration of the museum's beginnings. Examining a variety of materials including historical sources, reports commissioned during the KNCP, and relevant research offered by scholars and museum professionals, the paper assesses the claim made by Glasgow Museums that the renovation constituted a "twenty-first-century revision of the democratic and inclusive ideals on which the museum was founded" (O'Neill 2007, 395). The resultant analysis presents the argument that this narrative, which links certain elements of the institution's history with the objectives of the renovation, was deliberately promoted in an effort to couch change within a larger sense of continuity. Although Kelvingrove now largely reflects the KNCP's desired outcomes in terms of re-conceptualized galleries and ease of movement throughout the museum for instance, this discourse is not as seamless as Glasgow Museums presents it as being, thus making it worthy of interrogation.

International audience ; Recent literature argues that legal traditions of nations, i.e. their belonging tothe world of common law or civil law, are not neutral in terms of economicor institutional performance, especially with regard to key opportunities indeveloping countries out of poverty.We present the results of an exploratory exploitation of the "institutionalprofiles database" provided by DGTPE (French Ministry of Economy andFinance) and French Development Agency (survey 2009) supplemented bydata on legal origin and other variables from La Porta et al. We highlightspecificities of developing countries having inherited the French law (relativeto those of English law). A reflection on political power and the state findsa strong contrast between the ideal-typical model of French law and theempirical findings. This contrast is consistent with the notion rather than realstate in the former French colonies. ; La littérature récente soutient que les traditions juridiques des nations, tellesque leur appartenance au monde du droit civil ou de common law, ne sontpas neutres en termes de performances économiques ou institutionnelles, enparticulier en ce qui concerne les principales opportunités dans les pays endéveloppement à sortir de la pauvreté. Nous présentons les résultats d'uneexploitation exploratoire de la «base de données des profils institutionnels»fourni par la DGTPE (Ministère français de l'Economie et des Finances) etl'Agence française de développement (enquête 2009) et des données surl'origine légale et d'autres variables de La Porta et al. Nous mettons enévidence les spécificités des pays en développement ayant hérité de la loifrançaise (par rapport à celles du droit anglais). Une réflexion sur le pouvoirpolitique et l'Etat trouve un fort contraste entre le modèle idéal-typique dela loi française et les résultats empiriques. Ce contraste est conforme à l'étatréel de la notion plutôt que dans les anciennes colonies françaises.