Museum Bundle

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.

Table of Contents:
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.

About the Author :
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.