The International Handbooks of Museum Studies bring together original essays by a global team of experts to provide a state-of-the-art survey of the field of museum studies. * Creates an authoritative, multi-volume reference, offering unprecedented depth of coverage and breadth of scholarship in this interdisciplinary field * Accessibly structured into four thematic volumes exploring all aspects of museum theory, practice, media and controversies, and the impact of new technologies * Includes a treasure-trove of examples and original case studies to illuminate the various perspectives represented * Features original essays by an international team of contributors, including leading academics and practitioners, as well as up-and-coming names in the field * Provides an indispensable resource for the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society * Available online or as a four-volume print set; visit www.museumstudieshandbooks.com for more information Museum Theory showcases innovative theoretical formations that have defined museum studies and which point the way towards its future. Museum Practice addresses areas of museum work--especially those that have been neglected in the existing critical literature--in order to re-articulate and transcend the theory-practice division. Museum Media focuses on the relationship between museums and media, how media are changing contemporary museums, the role of material objects in museums, and how museums produce different kinds of visitor experience through display design. Museum Transformations addresses the social, cultural, political, and economic developments that are shaping and re-shaping museums.

General Editors: Sharon Macdonald is Alexander von Humboldt Professor in Sociocultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Helen Rees Leahy is Professor of Museology and Director of the Centre for Museology at the University of Manchester. Volume Editors: Museum Theory Andrea Witcomb is Professor and Director of the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asian and the Pacific at Deakin University, Australia. Kylie Message is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University. Museum Practice Conal McCarthy is Associate Professor and Director of the Museum and Heritage Studies program at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Museum Media Michelle Henning is Senior Lecturer in Photography and Visual Arts in the Media Department, School of Art, Design and Media at the University of Brighton. Museum Transformations Annie E. Coombes is Professor of Material and Visual Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Ruth B. Phillips is Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture and Professor of Art History at Carleton University, Canada.

VOLUME 1: MUSEUM THEORY List of Illustrations ix About the Editors xiii Notes on Contributors xv Acknowledgments xvii Preface xix Museum Theory: An Expanded Field xxvii Kylie Message and Andrea Witcomb Part I Thinking about Museums 1 1. Thinking (with) Museums: From Exhibitionary Complex to Governmental Assemblage 3 Tony Bennett 2. Foucault and the Museum 21 Kevin Hetherington 3. What, or Where, Is the (Museum) Object?: Colonial Encounters in Displayed Worlds of Things 41 Sandra H. Dudley 4. Anarchical Artifacts: Museums as Sites for Radical Otherness 63 Janice Baker 5. (Post-) Cartographic Urges: The Intersection of Museums and Tourism 79 Russell Staiff 6. Museums, Human Rights, and Universalism Reconsidered 93 Jennifer Barrett 7. The Democratic Horizons of the Museum: Citizenship and Culture 117 Peter Dahlgren and Joke Hermes 8. Museums, Ecology, Citizenship 139 Toby Miller Part II Disciplines and Politics 157 9. Reflexive Museology: Lost and Found 159 Shelley Ruth Butler 10. The Art of Anthropology: Questioning Contemporary Art in Ethnographic Display 183 Haidy Geismar 11. Change and Continuity: Art Museums and the Reproduction of Art-Museumness 211 Ien Ang 12. Cool Art on Display: The Saatchi Phenomenon 233 Jim McGuigan 13. Contentious Politics and Museums as Contact Zones 253 Kylie Message 14. Emotions in the History Museum 283 Sheila Watson 15. The Presence of the Past: Imagination and Affect in the Museu do Oriente, Portugal 303 Elsa Peralta 16. Toward a Pedagogy of Feeling: Understanding How Museums Create a Space for Cross-Cultural Encounters 321 Andrea Witcomb 17. The Liquid Museum: New Institutional Ontologies for a Complex, Uncertain World 345 Fiona Cameron Part III Theory from Practice/Practicing Theory 363 18. The Displaced Local: Multiple Agency in the Building of Museums Ethnographic Collections 365 Howard Morphy 19. The World as Collected; or, Museum Collections as Situated Materialities 389 Fredrik Svanberg 20. Ambient Aesthetics: Altered Subjectivities in the New Museum 417 Natalia Radywyl, Amelia Barikin, Nikos Papastergiadis and Scott McQuire 21. Museum Encounters and Narrative Engagements 437 Philipp Schorch 22. Theorizing Museum and Heritage Visiting 459 Laurajane Smith 23. The Museum in Hiding: Framing Conflict 485 Amelia Barikin, Lyndell Brown and Charles Green 24. Preserving/Shaping/Creating: Museums and Public Memory in a Time of Loss 511 James B. Gardner 25. Sites of Trauma: Contemporary Collecting and Natural Disaster 531 Liza Dale-Hallett, Rebecca Carland and Peg Fraser VOLUME 2: MUSEUM PRACTICE List of Illustrations ix Volume Editors xiii General Editors xv Contributors xvii Acknowledgements xix The International Handbooks of Museum Studies - Preface and Acknowledgments xxi Contents of the International Handbooks xxix Introduction: Grounding Museum Studies: Introducing Practice xxxvii Conal McCarthy Part I Priorities 1 1. The Essence of the Museum: Mission, Values, Vision 3 David Fleming 2. Governance: Guiding the Museum in Trust 27 Barry Lord and Rina Zigler 3. Policies, Frameworks, and Legislation: The Conditions Under Which English Museums Operate 43 Sara Selwood and Stuart Davies 4. Reconceptualizing Museum Ethics for the Twenty-First Century: A View from the Field 69 Janet Marstine, Jocelyn Dodd and Ceri Jones 5. Museum Measurement: Questions of Value 97 Carol A. Scott 6. Developing Audiences for the Twenty-First Century Museum 123 Graham Black Part II Resources 153 7. Balancing Mission and Money: Issues in Museum Economics 155 Ted Silberberg and Gail Dexter Lord 8. Tate and BP - Oil and Gas as the New Tobacco?: Arts Sponsorship, Branding, and Marketing 179 Derrick Chong 9. From Idiosyncratic to Integrated: Strategic Planning for Collections 203 Jim Gardner 10. Collection Care and Management: History, Theory, and Practice 221 John E. Simmons 11. The Future of Collecting in "Disciplinary" Museums: Interpretive, Thematic, Relational 249 Nick Merriman 12. Managing Collections or Managing Content?: The Evolution of Museum Collections Management Systems 267 Malcolm Chapman 13. Conservation Theory and Practice: Materials, Values, and People in Heritage Conservation 293 Dean Sully Part III Processes 315 14. From Caring to Creating: Curators Change Their Spots 317 Ken Arnold 15. The Pendulum Swing: Curatorial Theory Past and Present 341 Halona Norton-Westbrook 16. Planning for Success: Project Management for Museum Exhibitions 357 David K. Dean 17. Museum Exhibition Tradecraft: Not an Art, but an Art to It 379 Dan Spock 18. Museum Exhibition Practice: Recent Developments in Europe, Canada, and Australia 403 Linda Young, with Anne Whitelaw and Rosmarie Beier-de Haan 19. A Critique of Museum Restitution and Repatriation Practices 431 Piotr Bienkowski 20. Rewards and Frustrations: Repatriation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ancestral Remains by the National Museum of Australia 455 Michael Pickering Part IV Publics 479 21. The "Active Museum": How Concern with Community Transformed the Museum 481 Elizabeth Crooke 22. Visitor Studies: Toward a Culture of Reflective Practice and Critical Museology for the Visitor-Centered Museum 503 Lee Davidson 23. Translating Museum Meanings: A Case for Interpretation 529 Kerry Jimson 24. Learning, Education, and Public Programs in Museums and Galleries 551 John Reeve and Vicky Woollard 25. Reviewing the Digital Heritage Landscape: The Intersection of Digital Media and Museum Practice 577 Shannon Wellington and Gillian Oliver Afterword: The Continuing Struggle for Diversity and Equality 599 Eithne Nightingale Museum Practice and Mediation: An Afterword 613 Anthony Alan Shelton Index VOLUME 3: MUSEUM MEDIA List of Illustrations ix About the Editors xiii Notes on Contributors xv Acknowledgments xvii Preface xix Museum Media: An Introduction xxvii Michelle Henning Part I The Museum as Medium 1 1 Museums and Media Archaeology: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst 3 Michelle Henning 2 Media Archaeology of/in the Museum 23 Andrew Hoskins and Amy Holdsworth 3 Museums and the Challenge of Transmediation: The Case of Bristol's Wildwalk 43 Nils Lindahl Elliot 4 Mediatized Memory: Video Testimonies in Museums 69 Steffi de Jong 5 Visible and Invisible Institutions: Cinema in the French Art Museum 95 Jenny Chamarette 6 The Museum as TV Producer: Televisual Form in Curating, Commissioning, and Public Programming 121 Maeve Connolly 7 SimKnowledge: What Museums Can Learn from Video Games 145 Seth Giddings Part II Mediation and Immersion 165 8 The Life of Things 167 Ivan Gaskell 9 Lighting Practices in Art Galleries and Exhibition Spaces, 1750-1850 191 Alice Barnaby 10 There's Something in the Air: Sound in the Museum 215 Rupert Cox 11 Aesthetics and Atmosphere in Museums: A Critical Marketing Perspective 235 Brigitte Biehl-Missal and Dirk vom Lehn 12 Museums, Interactivity, and the Tasks of "Exhibition Anthropology" 259 Erkki Huhtamo 13 Keeping Objects Live 279 Fiona Candlin Part III Design and Curating in the Media Age 303 14 Total Media 305 Peter Higgins 15 From Object to Environment: The Recent History of Exhibitions in Germany and Austria 327 Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen and Translated by Mark Miscovich 16 Museums as Spaces of the Present: The Case for Social Scenography 349 Beat Hachler Translated by Niall Hoskin 17 (Dis)playing the Museum: Artifacts, Visitors, Embodiment, and Mediality 371 Karin Harrasser 18 Transforming the Natural History Museum in London: Isotype and the New Exhibition Scheme 389 Sue Perks 19 Embodiment and Place Experience in Heritage Technology Design 419 Luigina Ciolfi Part IV Extending the Museum 447 20 Open and Closed Systems: New Media Art in Museums and Galleries 449 Beryl Graham 21 Diffused Museums: Networked, Augmented, and Self-Organized Collections 473 John Bell and Jon Ippolito 22 Mobile in Museums: From Interpretation to Conversation 499 Nancy Proctor 23 Moving Out: Museums, Mobility, and Urban Spaces 527 Mark W. Rectanus 24 Beyond the Glass Case: Museums as Playgrounds for Replication 553 Petra Tjitske Kalshoven 25 With and Without Walls: Photographic Reproduction and the Art Museum 577 Michelle Henning 26 The Elastic Museum: Cinema Within and Beyond 603 Haidee Wasson Index VOLUME 4: MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS About the Editors ix Contributors xi Preface xiii Introduction: Museums in Transformation: Dynamics of Democratization and Decolonization xxi Annie E. Coombes and Ruth B. Phillips Part I Difficult Histories 1 1. The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and Its Information Center: Concepts, Controversies, Reactions 3 Sibylle Quack 2. Ghosts of Future Nations, or The Uses of the Holocaust Museum Paradigm in India 29 Kavita Singh 3. The International Difficult Histories Boom, the Democratization of History, and the National Museum of Australia 61 Bain Attwood 4. Where Are the Children? and "We Were So Far Away ...": Exhibiting the Legacies of Residential Schools, Healing, and Reconciliation 85 Jonathan Dewar 5. Recirculating Images of the "Terrorist" in Postcolonial Museums: The Case of the National Museum of Struggle in Nicosia, Cyprus 113 Gabriel Koureas 6. Reactivating the Colonial Collection: Exhibition-Making as Creative Process at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam 133 Mary Bouquet 7. "Congo As It Is?": Curatorial Reflections on Using Spatial Urban History in the Memory of Congo: The Colonial Era Exhibition 157 Johan Lagae 8. Between the Archive and the Monument: Memory Museums in Postdictatorship Argentina and Chile 181 Jens Andermann 9. The Gender of Memory in Postapartheid South Africa: The Women's Jail as Heritage Site 207 Annie E. Coombes Part II Social Agency and the Museum 227 10. An Ethnography of Repatriation: Engagements with Erromango, Vanuatu 229 Lissant Bolton 11. Of Heritage and Hesitation: Reflections on the Melanesian Art Project at the British Museum 249 Nicholas Thomas 12. The Blackfoot Shirts Project:"Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit" 263 Alison K. Brown and Laura Peers 13."Get to Know Your World": An Interview with Jim Enote, Director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico 289 Gwyneira Isaac 14. The Paro Manene Project: Exhibiting and Researching Photographic Histories in Western Kenya 311 Christopher Morton and Gilbert Oteyo 15. Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Curatorship, Knowledge Networks, and Social Transformation in Sierra Leone 337 Paul Basu 16. On Not Looking: Economies of Visuality in Digital Museums 365 Kimberly Christen Withey 17. Preserving the Physical Object in Changing Cultural Contexts 387 Miriam Clavir Part III Museum Experiments 413 18. The Last Frontier: Migratory Culture, Video, and Exhibiting without Voyeurism 415 Mieke Bal 19. Public Art/Private Lives: The Making of Hotel Yeoville 439 Tegan Bristow, Terry Kurgan and Alexander Opper 20. Museums, Women, and the Web 471 Reesa Greenberg 21. Möbius Museology: Curating and Critiquing the Multiversity Galleries at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology 489 Jennifer Kramer 22. When You Were Mine: (Re)Telling History at the National Museum of the American Indian 511 Paul Chaat Smith 23. Against the Edifice Complex: Vivan Sundaram's History Project and the Colonial Museum in India 527 Saloni Mathur 24. Can National Museums be Postcolonial?: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Obligation of Redress to First Nations 545 Ruth B. Phillips Index