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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 | |