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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Reinventing the Museum | |
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| The Role of the Museum: The Challenge to Remain Relevant | |
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| The Gloom of the Museum (1917) | |
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| What Is a Museum? (1942) | |
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| A Twelve Point Program for Museum Renewal (1970) | |
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| The Museum, a Temple or the Forum (1971) | |
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| Rethinking the Museum: An Emerging New Paradigm (1990) | |
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| Museums in the Age of Deconstruction (1992) | |
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| The Real Multiculturalism: A Struggle for Authority and Power (1992) | |
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| "Hey! That's Mine": Thoughts on Pluralism and American Museums (1992) | |
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| An Agenda for Museums in the Twenty-first Century (1999) | |
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| Additional Recommended Reading | |
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| The Role of the Public: The Need to Understand the Visitor's Perspective | |
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| The Contextual Model of Learning (2000) | |
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| The Museum's Role in a Multicultural Society (1992) | |
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| Staying Away: Why People Choose Not to Visit Museums (1983) | |
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| The Visitors' Bill of Rights (2000) | |
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| United States: A Science in the Making (1993) | |
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| Can Museums Be All Things to All People? Missions, Goals, and Marketing's Role (2000) | |
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| Additional Recommended Reading | |
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| The Role of Public Service: The Evolution of Exhibitions and Programs | |
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| Museum Exhibitions and the Dynamics of Dialogue (1999) | |
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| Changing Practices of Interpretation (1997) | |
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| Making Meaning Together: Lessons from the Field of American History (1993) | |
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| Is There Method in Our Madness? Improvisation in the Practice of Museum Education (1999) | |
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| Mining the Museum: An Installation Confronting History (1993) | |
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| Evaluating the Ethics and Consciences of Museums (1994) | |
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| Additional Recommended Reading | |
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| The Role of the Object: The Obligation of Stewardship and Cultural Responsibility | |
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| What Is the Object of This Exercise? A Meandering Exploration of the Many Meanings of Objects in Museums (1999) | |
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| Collecting Then, Collecting Today: What's the Difference? (2002) | |
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| Collections Planning: Pinning Down a Strategy (2002) | |
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| Who Cares? Conservation in a Contemporary Context (1999) | |
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| A Philosophical Perspective on the Ethics and Resolution of Cultural Properties Issues (1999) | |
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| Deft Deliberations (1991) | |
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| Deaccessioning: The American Perspective (1991) | |
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| Additional Recommended Reading | |
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| The Role of Leadership: The Essential Ingredient | |
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| Creampuffs and Hardball: Are You Really Worth What You Cost or Just Merely Worthwhile? (1995) | |
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| The Well-Managed Museum (1989) | |
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| Museum Accountability: Laws, Rules, Ethics, and Accreditation (1991) | |
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| Toward a New Governance (1997) | |
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| Institution-wide Change in Museums (1993) | |
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| Persistent Paradoxes (1997) | |
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| Additional Recommended Reading | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| About the Editor | |