This bundle comprises Museums and their Communities edited by Sheila Watson, and Re-imagining the Museum: Beyond the Mausoleum by Andrea Witcomb. Museums and their Communities brings together a collection of readings from practitioners and researchers, working across a range of disciplines, which explore and illuminate the complex and evolving relationships between museums and the diverse communities they represent, serve and with which they engage.
This bundle comprises Museums and their Communities edited by Sheila Watson, and Re-imagining the Museum: Beyond the Mausoleum by Andrea Witcomb
Re-Imaging the Museum: Introduction 1 Unmasking a different museum:
museums and cultural criticism 2 Floating the museum 3 From Batavia to
Australia II: negotiating changes in curatorial practices 4 A place for all
of us? Museums and communities 5 Beyond the mausoleum: museums and the media
6 Interactivity in museums: the politics of narrative style, Conclusion.
Museums and their Communities: PART ONE CHANGING ROLES OF MUSEUMS OVER TIME
AND CURRENT CHALLENGES Introduction to Part One 1 The Museum and the Public 2
Play It Again, Sam: reflections on a new museology 3 Place Exploration:
museums, identity, community 4 Interpretive Communities, Strategies and
Repertoires 5 Museums and the Combating of Social Inequality: roles,
responsibilities, resistance 6 Museums for The People? 7 A Quest for
Identity 8 A Place for All of Us? Museums and Communities 9 From Treasure
House to Museum . . . and Back PART TWO WHO CONTROLS THE MUSEUM? Introduction
to Part Two 10 Exhibitions of Power and Powers of Exhibition: an introduction
to the politics of display 11 Nuclear Reactions: the (re)presentation of
Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum 12 The Postmodern Exhibition:
cut on the bias, or is Enola Gay a verb? 13 Sachsenhausen: a flawed museum 14
Representing Diversity and Challenging Racism: the Migration Museum 15
Collection, Repatriation and Identity 16 Yours, Mine, or Ours? Conflicts
between archaeologists and ethnic groups PART THREE MUSEUMS AND IDENTITIES
Introduction to Part Three 17 Canadian Museums and the Representation of
Culture in a Multicultural Nation 18 Museums as Agents for Social and
Political Change 19 Museums, Communities and the Politics of Heritage in
Northern Ireland 20 Regenerating Identity: repatriation and the Indian frame
of mind 21 Identity and Community: a look at four Latino museums 22
Minorities and Fine-Arts Museums in the United States 23 The Peopling of
London Project 24 Inspiration Africa!: Using tangible and intangible heritage
to promote social inclusion amongst young people with disabilities PART FOUR
COMMUNITIES REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING Introduction to Part Four 25 Memory
Experience: the forms and functions of memory 26 Exhibiting Memories 27 Past
Tense 28 The Exhibition that Speaks for Itself: oral history and museums 29
Contesting Local Commemoration of the Second World War: the case of the
Changi Chapel and Museum in Singapore 30 Collective Amnesia and the Mediation
of Painful Pasts: the representation of France in the Second World War 31
Victims Remembered 32 The Holocaust Museum Concept 33 Mapping the Memories:
politics, place and identity in the District Six Museum, Cape Town PART FIVE
CHALLENGES: MUSEUMS AND COMMUNITIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Introduction
to Part Five 34 State Authority and the Public Sphere: ideas on the changing
role of the museum as a Canadian social institution 35 Museums: constructing
a public culture in the global age 36 Money, Power, and the History of Art:
Whose money? Whose power? Whose art history? 37 Museums and Source
Communities 38 Archaeology and Vanua Development in Fiji.
Andrea Witcomb was a curator at the Australian National Maritime Museum and at the National Museum of Australia. She is currently a senior lecturer at the Research Institute for Cultural Heritage at Curtin University of Technology in Perth. Shelia Watson is a lecturer in the Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.
