Notice catalographique « Museum revolutions : how museums change and are changed »

• Knell, Simon J.
• MacLeod, Suzanne
• Watson, Sheila E. R

Contents:

1. Establishing the paradigmatic museum : Georges Cuvier's cabinet d'anatomie compared 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

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
Evelyne Tegomoh

18. Charting the boundaries : indigenous models and parallel practices in the development of the post-museum Moira C. Simpson

19. Where to from here? : repatriation of indigenous human remains and 'The Museum'
Michael Pickering

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 and 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

• Museums - Social aspects
• Museums - Philosophy
• Museum exhibits - Social aspects
• Museum visitors
• Objets exposés - Aspect social
• Visiteurs de musée
• Musées - Philosophie
• Musées - Aspect social

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