Contents

• General introduction : what are museums for?
• The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White
• Psychoanalysis and its history / Michel De Certeau
• Rome, the archetypal museum, and the Louvre, the negation of division / Jean-Louis Deotte
• Poetics of the museum : Lenoir and Du Sommerard / Stephen Bann
• Telling objects : a narrative perspective on collecting / Mieke Bal
• Collective memory and memoria rerum : an architecture for thinking / Mary Carruthers
• Science-honour-metaphor : Italian cabinets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Giuseppe Olmi
• Natural history and the emblematic world view / William B. Ashworth, Jr.
• The museum : its classical etymology and Renaissance genealogy / Paula Findlen
• Inventing Assyria : exoticism and reception in nineteenth-century England and France / Frederick N. Bohrer
• Double visions / Homi K. Bhabha
• Teddy bear patriarchy : taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 / Donna Haraway
• From princely gallery to the public art museum : the Louvre museum and the National Gallery, London / Carol Duncan
• Museums and the formation of national and cultural identities / Annie E. Coombes
• Creating identity : exhibiting the Philippines at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition / Beverly K. Grindstaff
• Performing identity : the museal framing of Nazi ideology / Sandra Esslinger
• The cosmic theme park of the Javanese / Shelly Errington
• Introduction to museum without walls / Andre Malraux
• Texts/contexts : of other spaces / Michel Foucault
• Power/knowledge - constructed space and the subject / Paul Q. Hirst
• Museums : managers of consciousness / Hans Haacke
• The exhibitionary complex / Tony Bennett
• Orientalism and the exhibitionary order / Timothy Mitchell
• China in Britain : the imperial collections / Craig Clunas
• The museum of modern art as late capitalist ritual : an iconographical analysis / Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach
• Animals as cultural signs : collecting animals in sixteenth-century Medici Florence / Claudia Lazzaro
• Remarks on the collection of Rudolf II : the Kunstkammer as a form of Representatio / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
• Philip Hainhofer and Gustavus Adolfus’s Kunstschrank / Hans-Olof Bostrom
• Museums in eighteenth- century Rome / Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny
• The genesis and early development of the Royal Museum in Stockholm : a claim for authenticity and legitimacy / Magnus Olausson and Solfrid Soderlind
• The cultural logic of the late capitalist museum / Rosalind Krauss
• Collision / Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska
• Cultural reflections / Moira Simpson
• Histories of the tribal and the modern / James Clifford
• Always true to the object, in our fashion / Susan Vogel
• From primitivism to ethnic arts / Rasheed Araeen
• Museums are good to think : heritage on view in India / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge
• Remaking passports : visual thought in the debate on multiculturalism / Nestor Garcia Canclini
• Our (museum) world turned upside down : re-presenting native American arts / Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips
• The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles : an account of collaboration between artists, trustees and an architect / Jo-Anne Berelowitz
• The identity card project and the Tower of Faces at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Andrea Liss
• Where is ‘Africa’? re-viewing art and artifact in the age of globalization / Ruth B. Philips