A Companion to Museum Studies captures a fresh, multi disciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. The essays examine the complexity of the museum from cultural, political governance, curatorial, historical, and representational perspectives.

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List of Illustrations.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Bibliographical Note.

1. Expanding Museum Studies: an Introduction (Sharon Macdonald).

Part I: Perspectives, Disciplines, Concepts.

Introduction.

2. Cultural Theory and Museum Studies (Rhiannon Mason).

3. Sociology and the Social Aspects of Museums (Gordon Fyfe).

4. Art History and Museology: Rendering the Visible Legible (Donald Preziosi).

5. Museums and Anthropologies. Practices and Narratives (Anthony Alan Shelton).

6. Collecting Practices (Sharon Macdonald).

7. The Conundrum of Ephemerality: Time, Memory and Museums (Susan A. Crane).

Part II. Histories, Heritage, Identities.

Introduction.

8. The Origins of the Public Museum (Jeffrey Abt).

9. World s Fairs and Museums (Robert W. Rydell).

10. Making and Remaking National Identities (Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan).

11. Museums and Community (Elizabeth Crooke).

12. Re staging Histories and Identities (Rosmarie Beier de Haan).

13. Heritage (Steven Hoelscher).

Part III. Architecture, Space, Media.

Introduction.

14. Museum Architecture: a Brief History (Michaela Giebelhausen).

15. Insight versus Entertainment. Untimely Meditations on the Architecture of 20th Century Art Museums (Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani).

16. Civic Seeing: Museums and the Organisation of Vision (Tony Bennett).

17. Spatial Syntax: the Language of Museum Space (Bill Hillier and Kali Tzortzi).

18. New Media (Michelle Henning).

Part IV. Visitors, Learning, Interacting: Introduction.

19. Living in a Learning Society: Museums and Free Choice Learning (John H. Falk, Lynn D. Dierking and Marianna Adams).

20. Museum Education (George E. Hein).

21. Interactivity: Thinking Beyond (Andrea Witcomb).

22. Studying Visitors (Eilean Hooper Greenhill).

Part V. Globalization, Profession, Practice.

Introduction.

23. Globalization: In Corporating the Museum (Mark W. Rectanus).

24. Cultural Economics (Bruno S. Frey and Stephan Meier).

25. The Museum Profession (Patrick J. Boylan).

26. Museum Ethics (Tristram Besterman).

27. Museum Practice: Legal Issues (Patty Gerstenblith).

28. Non Western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross Cultural Perspective (Christina Kreps).

Part VI. Culture Wars, Transformations, Futures.

Introduction.

29. Incivilities in Civil( ized) Places: "Culture Wars" in Comparative Perspective (Steven C. Dubin).

30. Science Museums and the Culture Wars (Steven Conn).

31. Postmodern Restructurings (Nick Prior).

32. Exposing the Public (Mieke Bal).

33. The Future of Museums (Charles Saumarez Smith).

Index.

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Editorial		6	(10)
Peter Weibel
Andrea Buddensieg
The State of the Arts
Contemporary Art and the Museum in the Global Age		16	(26)
Hans Belting
Critical Essays
Museum Politics in Africa		42	(8)
Claude Ardouin
Visibility in the Art World: The Voice of Rasheed Araeen		50	(16)
Andrea Buddensieg
Beyond Euramenca		66	(14)
John Clark
A Museum or a Center for Mexican Contemporaneity?		80	(14)
Karen Cordero Reiman
Museums for the People? Two Joint Projects for Haiti and the Congo		94	(16)
Bogurml Jewsiewicki
Reflections on the Global South		110	(14)
Beral Madra
A New Geography of Art Institutions		124	(14)
John Onians
Beyond the White Cube		138	(12)
Peter Weibel
Archive
Our Bauhaus Others` Mudhouse		150	(14)
Rasheed Araeen
Exhibiting Cultures		164	(10)
Hans Belting
The Impossible Look: A View from Africa		174	(10)
Mamadou Diawara
The Mestizo Mind		184	(14)
Serge Gruzinski
Global Culture: An Arab View		198	(16)
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Beyond the Box: A View from India		214	(18)
Rustom Bharucha
Conference Summaries
The Global Future of Local Art Museums: The Cultural Practice of Local Memory and the Rise of Global Art IFK Vienna, 19-21 January 2006		232	(8)
Hans Belting
The Global Challenge of Art Museums ZKM Karlsruhe, 24-25 June 2006		240	(10)
Andrea Buddensieg
Appendix
Contributors		250

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