A companion to museum studies

List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors xii Acknowledgments xix Bibliographical Note xx 1 Expanding Museum Studies: An Introduction 1 Sharon Macdonald Part I Perspectives, Disciplines, Concepts 13 Introduction 14 2 Cultural Theory and Museum Studies 17 Rhiannon Mason 3 Sociology and the Social Aspects of Museums 33 Gordon Fyfe 4 Art History and Museology: Rendering the Visible Legible 50 Donald Preziosi 5 Museums and Anthropologies: Practices and Narratives 64 Anthony Alan Shelton 6 Collecting Practices 81 Sharon Macdonald 7 The Conundrum of Ephemerality: Time, Memory, and Museums 98 Susan A. Crane Part II Histories, Heritage, Identities 111 Introduction 112 8 The Origins of the Public Museum 115 Jeffrey Abt 9 World Fairs and Museums 135 Robert W. Rydell 10 Making and Remaking National Identities 152 Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan 11 Museums and Community 170 Elizabeth Crooke 12 Re-staging Histories and Identities 186 Rosmarie Beier-de Haan 13 Heritage 198 Steven Hoelscher Part III Architecture, Space, Media 219 Introduction 220 14 Museum Architecture: A Brief History 223 Michaela Giebelhausen 15 Insight versus Entertainment: Untimely Meditations on the Architecture of Twentieth-century Art Museums 245 Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani 16 Civic Seeing: Museums and the Organization of Vision 263 Tony Bennett 17 Space Syntax: The Language of Museum Space 282 Bill Hillier and Kali Tzortzi 18 New Media 302 Michelle Henning Part IV Visitors, Learning, Interacting 319 Introduction 320 19 Living in a Learning Society: Museums and Free-choice Learning 323 John H. Falk, Lynn D. Dierking, and Marianna Adams 20 Museum Education 340 George E. Hein 21 Interactivity: Thinking Beyond 353 Andrea Witcomb 22 Studying Visitors 362 Eilean Hooper-Greenhill Part V Globalization, Profession, Practice 377 Introduction 378 23 Globalization: Incorporating the Museum 381 Mark W. Rectanus 24 Cultural Economics 398 Bruno S. Frey and Stephan Meier 25 The Museum Profession 415 Patrick J. Boylan 26 Museum Ethics 431 Tristram Besterman 27 Museum Practice: Legal Issues 442 Patty Gerstenblith 28 Non-Western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural Perspective 457 Christina Kreps Part VI Culture Wars, Transformations, Futures 473 Introduction 474 29 Incivilities in Civil(-ized) Places: “Culture Wars” in Comparative Perspective 477 Steven C. Dubin 30 Science Museums and the Culture Wars 494 Steven Conn 31 Postmodern Restructurings 509 Nick Prior 32 Exposing the Public 525 Mieke Bal 33 The Future of the Museum 543 Charles Saumarez Smith Index 555