Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Notes on Contributors xii
Acknowledgments xix
Bibliographical Note xx
1 Expanding Museum Studies: An Introduction 1 Sharon Macdonald
Part I Perspectives, Disciplines, Concepts 13
Introduction 14
2 Cultural Theory and Museum Studies 17 Rhiannon Mason
3 Sociology and the Social Aspects of Museums 33 Gordon Fyfe
4 Art History and Museology: Rendering the Visible Legible 50 Donald Preziosi
5 Museums and Anthropologies: Practices and Narratives 64 Anthony Alan Shelton
6 Collecting Practices 81 Sharon Macdonald
7 The Conundrum of Ephemerality: Time, Memory, and Museums 98 Susan A. Crane
Part II Histories, Heritage, Identities 111
Introduction 112
8 The Origins of the Public Museum 115 Jeffrey Abt
9 World Fairs and Museums 135 Robert W. Rydell
10 Making and Remaking National Identities 152 Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan
11 Museums and Community 170 Elizabeth Crooke
12 Re-staging Histories and Identities 186 Rosmarie Beier-de Haan
13 Heritage 198 Steven Hoelscher
Part III Architecture, Space, Media 219
Introduction 220
14 Museum Architecture: A Brief History 223 Michaela Giebelhausen
15 Insight versus Entertainment: Untimely Meditations on the Architecture of Twentieth-century Art Museums 245 Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
16 Civic Seeing: Museums and the Organization of Vision 263 Tony Bennett
17 Space Syntax: The Language of Museum Space 282 Bill Hillier and Kali Tzortzi
18 New Media 302 Michelle Henning
Part IV Visitors, Learning, Interacting 319
Introduction 320
19 Living in a Learning Society: Museums and Free-choice Learning 323 John H. Falk, Lynn D. Dierking, and Marianna Adams
20 Museum Education 340 George E. Hein
21 Interactivity: Thinking Beyond 353 Andrea Witcomb
22 Studying Visitors 362 Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Part V Globalization, Profession, Practice 377
Introduction 378
23 Globalization: Incorporating the Museum 381 Mark W. Rectanus
24 Cultural Economics 398 Bruno S. Frey and Stephan Meier
25 The Museum Profession 415 Patrick J. Boylan
26 Museum Ethics 431 Tristram Besterman
27 Museum Practice: Legal Issues 442 Patty Gerstenblith
28 Non-Western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural Perspective 457 Christina Kreps
Part VI Culture Wars, Transformations, Futures 473
Introduction 474
29 Incivilities in Civil(-ized) Places: “Culture Wars” in Comparative Perspective 477 Steven C. Dubin
30 Science Museums and the Culture Wars 494 Steven Conn
31 Postmodern Restructurings 509 Nick Prior
32 Exposing the Public 525 Mieke Bal
33 The Future of the Museum 543 Charles Saumarez Smith
Index 555
