Museum revolutions : how museums change and are changed / edited by Simon J. Knell, Suzanne MacLeod and Sheila Watson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Simon Knell -- Shaping museums and manifestos -- 1. Establishing the paradigmatic museum: Georges Cuvier's Cabinet d'anatomie compar in Paris / Philippe Taquet -- 2. William Bullock: inventing a visual language of objects / Susan Pearce -- 3. Museums, fossils and the cultural revolution of science: mapping change in the politics of knowledge in early nineteenth-century Britain / Simon J. Knell -- 4. Establishing the manifesto: art histories in the nineteenth-century museum / Christopher Whitehead -- 5. Economic logic versus Enlightenment rationality: evolution of the museum-zoo-garden complex and the modern Indian city, 1843-1900 / Savithri Preetha Nair -- 6. Occupying the architecture of the gallery: spatial, social and professional change at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1877-1933 / Suzanne MacLeod -- 7. Modernity and identity: the National Museum of Iran / Ali Mozaffari -- 8. Science centres: a museums studies approach to their development and possible future direction / Richard Toon -- 9. Before 'Te Maori': a revolution deconstructed / Conal McCarthy -- 10. Museums, social responsibility and the future we desire / Robert R. Janes -- Changing places, changing people -- 11. Making Pakeha histories in New Zealand museums: community and identity in the post-war period / Bronwyn Labrum -- 12. History museums, community identities and a sense of place: rewriting histories / Sheila Watson -- 13. Museums and the shaping of cultural identities: visitors' recollections in local museums in Taiwan / Chia-Li Chen -- 14. Political and social influences affecting the sense of place in municipal museums in Portugal / Marta Anico and Elsa Peralta -- 15. Ecomuseums and sustainability in Italy, Japan and China: concept adaptation through implementation / Peter Davis -- 16. Maori, museums and the Treaty of Waitangi: the changing politics of representation and control / David Butts -- 17. Cultural entrepreneurs, sacred objects and the living museums of Africa / Evelyn Tegomoh -- 18. Charting the boundaries: Indigenous models and parallel practices in the development of the post-museum / Moira G. Simpson -- 19. Where to from here? Repatriation of Indigenous human remains and 'the museum' / Michael Pickering -- Articulating change: media, message, philosophy -- 20. Beyond nostalgia: the role of affect in generating historical understanding at heritage sites / Kate Gregory and Andrea Witcomb -- 21. Visitors and learning: adult museum visitors' learning identities / Lynda Kelly -- 22. Museums - drama, ritual and power / Jem Fraser -- 23. Critical museum pedagogy and exhibition development: a conceptual first step Margaret A. Lindauer / 24 Learning at the museum frontiers: democracy, identity and difference -- Viv Golding -- 25. Moral lessons and reforming agendas: history museums, science museums, contentious topics and contemporary societies / Fiona Cameron -- 26. 'Who knows the fate of his bones?' Rethinking the body on display: object, art or human remains? / Mary M. Brooks & Claire Rumsey -- 27. From the document to the monument: museums and the philosophy of history / Beth Lord -- 28. Education, postmodernity and the museum / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill.

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