New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction

List of Figures.

Preface: How to Use this Book.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction (Janet Marstine).

Part I: Defining New Museum Theory.

A Surveys and Groundwork.

1. Editor's Introduction.

The Architecture is the Museum (Micheala Giebelhausen).

Questions for Discussion.

2. Editor's Introduction.

Feminist Curatorial Strategies and Practices Since the 1970s (Katy Deepwell).

3. Editor's Introduction.

New Art, New Challenges: The Changing Face of Conservation in the Twenty-First Century (Rachel Barker and Patricia Smithen).

Questions for Discussion.

B. Case Studies in Contemporary Practice.

4. Editor's Introduction.

How We Study History Museums: Or Cultural Studies At Monticello (Eric Gable).

Questions for Discussion.

5. Editor's Introduction.

Spectacle and Democracy: Experience Music Project as a Post-Museum (Chris Bruce).

Questions for Discussion.

6. Editor's Introduction.

Revealing and Concealing: Museums, Objects, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia (Moira G. Simpson).

Questions for Discussion.

7. Editor's Introduction.

Restructuring South African Museums: Reality and Rhetoric Within Cape Town (Julie L. NcGee).

Part II: Looking to the Future: Theory into Practice.

8. Editor's Introduction.

The Critical Museums Visitor (Margaret Lindauer).

Questions for Discussion.

9. Editor's Introduction.

Visiting the Virtual Museum: Art and Experience Online (Lianne McTavish).

Questions for Discussion.

10. Editor's Introduction.

Reframing Studio Art Production and Critique (Helen Klebesadel).

Questions for Discussion.

11. Editor's Introduction.

The University Museum and Gallery: A Site for Institutional Critique and a Focus of the Curriculum (Lyndel King and Janet Marstine).

Questions for Discussion.

12. Editor's Introduction.

Museum Archives as Resources from Scholarly Research and Institutional Identity (Lois Marie Fink).

Questions for Discussion.

Bibliography.

Index.