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| Contents: Alternative Taxonomy | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Museum/Studies and the "Eccentric Space" of an Anthology | |
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| Museology: A Collection of Contexts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| From The Museum Age: Foreword | |
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| The Museum: Its Classical Etymology and Renaissance Genealogy | |
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| The Universal Survey Museum | |
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| Brain of the Earth's Body: Museums and the Framing of Modernity | |
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| The Museum Refuses to Stand Still | |
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| The Mirror and the Tomb: Africa, Museums, and Memory | |
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| Seeing Through Solidity: A Feminist Perspective on Museums | |
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| Museums of "Human Suffering" and the Struggle for Human Rights | |
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| Meditation | |
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| At The Holocaust Museum | |
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| States of "Nature" in the Museum: Natural History, Anthropology, Ethnology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| To the Citizens of the United States of America | |
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| Letter of 1863 to Mr. Thomas G. Cary | |
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| The Development of Ethnological Museums | |
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| Museums of Ethnology and Their Classification | |
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| The Constitution of Nature: Taxonomy as Politics in Jefferson, Peale, and Bartram | |
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| "Magnificent Intentions": Washington, D.C., and American Anthropology in 1846 | |
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| Ethnology: A Science on Display | |
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| Ambiguous Messages and Ironic Twists: Into the Heart of Africa and The Other Museum | |
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| Thinking and Doing Otherwise: Anthropological Theory in Exhibitionary Practice | |
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| Museum Matters | |
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| Meditation | |
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| What White Publishers Won't Print | |
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| The Status of Nations and the Museum | |
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| Introduction | |
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| From On the Museum of Art: An Address | |
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| Museums and the Formation of National and Cultural Identities | |
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| Fracturing the Imperial Mind | |
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| Presidential Address to the Museums Association, Maidstone Meeting, 1909 | |
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| Picturing Feminism, Selling Liberalism: The Case of the Disappearing Holbein | |
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| The Architectural Museum from World's Fair to Restoration Village | |
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| Addresses on the Occasion of the Opening of the American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
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| Telling the Story of America | |
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| Some Thoughts about National Museums at the End of the Century | |
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| Meditation | |
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| The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford | |
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| Locating History in the Museum | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Local Museums | |
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| Memory, Distortion, and History in the Museum | |
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| Collecting Ideas and Artifacts: Common Problems of History Museums and History Texts | |
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| Melodrama, Pantomime or Portrayal? Representing Ourselves and the British Past through Exhibitions in History Museums | |
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| Reality as Illusion, the Historic Houses that Become Museums | |
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| Artifacts as Expressions of Society and Culture: Subversive Genealogy and the Value of History | |
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| A Sense of Another World: History Museums and Cultural Change | |
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| Mining the Museum: Artists Look at Museums, Museums Look at Themselves | |
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| Meditation | |
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| Other Icons: The Museums | |
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| Arts, Crafts, Audiences | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Museum as an Art Patron | |
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| Aims and Principles of the Construction and Management of Museums of Fine Art | |
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| Museum | |
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| Conclusion to The Love of Art | |
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| Art and the Future's Past | |
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| Museums Without Collections: Museum Philosophy in West Africa | |
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| Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-century Boston, Part II: The Classification and Framing of American Art | |
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| Women at the Whitney, 1910-30: Feminism/Sociology/Aesthetics | |
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| Zero Gravity | |
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| From The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect: Introduction | |
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| Exhibiting Mestizaje: The Poetics and Experience of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum | |
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| Resonance and Wonder | |
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| Changing Values in the Art Museum: Rethinking Communication and Learning | |
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| Meditation | |
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| Secrets of Encounter | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |