Notice catalographique « Reinventing the museum : the evolving conversation on the paradigm shift »

Part I: Pivotal Moments in the 20th-Century Dialogue
1. The Gloom of the Museum
2. What is a Museum?
3. The Museum, a Temple of the Forum?
4. Museum Accountability: Laws, Rules, Ethics, and Accreditation
5. Deft Deliberations
6. Deaccessioning: The American Perspective
7. Museums in the Age of Deconstruction
8. The Real Multiculturism: A Struggle for Authority and Power
9. Mining the Museum: An Installation Confronting History
10. The Constructivist Museum
11. Creampuffs and Hardball: Are You Really Worth What You Cost or Just Merely Worthwhile?
12. Savings Bank for the Soul: About Institutions of Memory and Congregant Spaces
13. Changing Practices of Interpretation
14. The Experience Economy
15. From Being About Something to Being For Somebody: The Ongoing

Part II: The Emerging 21st-Century Ideology

16. Change and Complexity in the 21st-Century Museum: The Real Relics in our Museums May Be the Ways We Think and Work
17. The Relevant Museum: A Reflection on Sustainability
18. The Case for Holistic Intentionality
19. Museum Collections, Documentation, and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms
20. Sustainable Stewardship: Preventive Conservation in a Changing World
21. Culture and Museums in the Winds of Change: The Need for Cultural
Indicators
22. Embedding Civic Engagement in Museums

Part III: Perspectives on Meaningful Public Engagement

23. Do Museum Exhibitions Have a Future?
24. The Exploded Museum
25. The Visitors’ Bill of Rights: A List of Important Human Needs, Seen From the Visitors’ Point of View
26. The Museum Visitor Experience: Who Visits, Why and to What Effect?
27. Principles of Participation
28. What Is To Be Done, Sandra? Learning in Cultural Institutions of the 21st Century
29. Threshold Fear: Architecture Program Planning

Part IV: Shifting Frameworks and Infrastructures

30. Creating a New Business Model
31. New Ways of Experiencing Culture: The Role of Museums and Marketing Implications
32. Comprehensive Interpretive Plans: A Framework of Questions
33. From Knowing to Not Knowing: Moving Beyond “Outcomes”
34. Legal and Ethical Considerations in Museum Acquisitions
35. Collections Planning: Pinning Down a Strategy
36. It's Easy Being Green

Part V: Strategic Implications for Leadership

37. Emotional Intelligence, Passion and Museum Leadership
38. Governance as Leadership: Bringing New Governing Mindsets to Old Challenges
39. The Source: Twelve Principles of Governance That Power Exceptional Boards
40. On the Job: For Nonprofits, Final Accountability Rests in the Board’s Hands
41. Multicultural Organizational Development in Nonprofit Organizations: Lessons from the Cultural Competence Learning Initiative
42. Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century: New Contexts and Skills Definitions
43. The Mindful Museum
44. Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail

• Museums - Philosophy
• Museums - Social aspects
• Museums - Historiography
• Cultural property - Protection
• Biens culturels - Protection
• Musées - Philosophie
• Musées - Aspect social