Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture, philosophy and their adoring or combative publics.

• Brings together for the first time a wide array of texts that mix contemporary analysis with historical documentation.
  
• Includes five sections that highlight central themes in museum studies: issue-oriented contexts in museology; states of "nature"; the status of nations; history, memory and other locations; and arts, crafts and visitors.
  
• Addresses the development of museums, the role of the museum in society, and issues central to contemporary museum studies.
  
• Opens with an introductory essay that situates museum studies in a truly interdisciplinary context and includes an opening essay for each section that guides the reader through the selections.
  
• Includes a bibliography and list of resources devoted to museum studies that makes the volume an authoritative guide on the subject.