Dominique Bauer is Assistant Professor of History at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Leuven, Belgium, and a member of the Centre d’Analyse Culturelle de la Première Modernité at the Université Catholique de Louvain. Camilla Murgia is Assistant Professor in History of Art at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Previously, she was Junior Lecturer and Substitute Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Lausanne, where she researched space, theatre, and staging in nineteenth-century France.

• I. Introduction: Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces and the Dynamic of Historical Liminalities (Dominique Bauer, KU Leuven), II. Liminal Domesticities, 1. Panorama as Critical Restoration: Examining the Ephemeral Space of Viollet-le-Duc's Study at La Vedette (Aisling O'Carroll), 2. An Ephemeral Museum of Decorative and Industrial Arts: Charle Albert's Vlaams Huis (Daniela Prina), 3. Expanding Interiors: Architectural Photographs of the Countess de Castiglione (Heidi Brevik-Zender) (University of California, Riverside/ Fulbright Visiting Scholar Professor, University of Aberdeen), III. Bygone nations and empires under construction. The political imagination of liminality, 4. The Land that Never Was: Liminality of Existence and the Imaginary Spaces in the Archbishopric of Karlovci (Jelena Todorovic), 5. The Theatre of Affectionate Hearts: Izabella Czartoryska's Musée des Monuments Polonais in Pu?awy (1801-1831) (Michal Mencfel), 6. A Burning Mind, a Dream Space, a Fantastic Exhibition (Inessa Kouteinikova), IV. England and the British Empire. Civil society, civil service and the liminal position of transient spaces, 7. An Ephemeral Display within an Ephemeral Museum: The East India Company Contribution to the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 (Elizabeth Pergam), 8. Julia Margaret Cameron's Railway Station Exhibition: A Private Gallery in the Public Sphere (Jeff Rosen), 9. Paper Monument: The Paradoxical Space in the English Optical Toy Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, 1825 - 1843 (Shijia Yu), Index.

Dominique Bauer is Assistant Professor of History at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Leuven, Belgium, and a member of the Centre d’Analyse Culturelle de la Première Modernité at the Université Catholique de Louvain. Camilla Murgia is Assistant Professor in History of Art at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Previously, she was Junior Lecturer and Substitute Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Lausanne, where she researched space, theatre, and staging in nineteenth-century France.

• I. Introduction: Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces and the Dynamic of Historical Liminalities (Dominique Bauer, KU Leuven), II. Liminal Domesticities, 1. Panorama as Critical Restoration: Examining the Ephemeral Space of Viollet-le-Duc's Study at La Vedette (Aisling O'Carroll), 2. An Ephemeral Museum of Decorative and Industrial Arts: Charle Albert's Vlaams Huis (Daniela Prina), 3. Expanding Interiors: Architectural Photographs of the Countess de Castiglione (Heidi Brevik-Zender) (University of California, Riverside/ Fulbright Visiting Scholar Professor, University of Aberdeen), III. Bygone nations and empires under construction. The political imagination of liminality, 4. The Land that Never Was: Liminality of Existence and the Imaginary Spaces in the Archbishopric of Karlovci (Jelena Todorovic), 5. The Theatre of Affectionate Hearts: Izabella Czartoryska's Musée des Monuments Polonais in Pu?awy (1801-1831) (Michal Mencfel), 6. A Burning Mind, a Dream Space, a Fantastic Exhibition (Inessa Kouteinikova), IV. England and the British Empire. Civil society, civil service and the liminal position of transient spaces, 7. An Ephemeral Display within an Ephemeral Museum: The East India Company Contribution to the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 (Elizabeth Pergam), 8. Julia Margaret Cameron's Railway Station Exhibition: A Private Gallery in the Public Sphere (Jeff Rosen), 9. Paper Monument: The Paradoxical Space in the English Optical Toy Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, 1825 - 1843 (Shijia Yu), Index.