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| List of illustrations | |
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| Notes on contributors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Shaping museums and manifestos | |
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| Establishing the paradigmatic museum: Georges Cuvier's Cabinet d'anatomie compar�e in Paris | |
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| William Bullock: inventing a visual language of objects | |
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| Museums, fossils and the cultural revolution of science: mapping change in the politics of knowledge in early nineteenth-century Britain | |
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| Establishing the manifesto: art histories in the nineteenth-century museum | |
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| Economic logic versus Enlightenment rationality: evolution of the museum-zoo-garden complex and the modern Indian city, 1843-1900 | |
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| Occupying the architecture of the gallery: spatial, social and professional change at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1877-1933 | |
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| Modernity and identity: the National Museum of Iran | |
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| Science centres: a museums studies approach to their development and possible future direction | |
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| Before 'Te Maori': a revolution deconstructed | |
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| Museums, social responsibility and the future we desire | |
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| Changing places, changing people | |
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| Making Pakeha histories in New Zealand museums: community and identity in the post-war period | |
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| History museums, community identities and a sense of place: rewriting histories | |
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| Museums and the shaping of cultural identities: visitors' recollections in local museums in Taiwan | |
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| Political and social influences affecting the sense of place in municipal museums in Portugal | |
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| Ecomuseums and sustainability in Italy, Japan and China: concept adaptation through implementation | |
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| Maori, museums and the Treaty of Waitangi: the changing politics of representation and control | |
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| Cultural entrepreneurs, sacred objects and the living museums of Africa | |
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| Charting the boundaries: indigenous models and parallel practices in the development of the post-museum | |
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| Where to from here? Repatriation of indigenous human remains and 'The Museum' | |
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| Articulating change: media, message, philosophy | |
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| Beyond nostalgia: the role of affect in generating historical understanding at heritage sites | |
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| Visitors and learning: adult museum visitors' learning identities | |
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| Museums - drama, ritual and power | |
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| Critical museum pedagogy and exhibition development: a conceptual first step | |
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| Learning at the museum frontiers: democracy, identity and difference | |
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| Moral lessons and reforming agendas: history museums, science museums, contentious topics and contemporary societies | |
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| 'Who knows the fate of his bones?' Rethinking the body on display: object, art or human remains? | |
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| From the document to the monument: museums and the philosophy of history | |
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| Education, postmodernity and the museum | |
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| Index | |