Introduction: The architecture of the museum - symbolic structures, urban contexts, Michaela Giebelhausen. Part One Capital aspirations - urban reimaging: the "Kunstkamera" of Tsar Peter the Great (St Petersburg 1718-1734) - King Solomon's house or repository of the four continents?, Debora J. Meijers; the wrong twigs for an eagle's nest? Architecture, nationalism and Sir Hugh Lane's scheme for a Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, 1904-1913, Neil Sharp; exhibiting antipodean narratives - tracing the Perth museum site, Hannah Lewi; symbolic capital - the Frankfurt museum boom of the 1980s, Michaela Giebelhausen; on the beach - art, tourism and the Tate St Ives, Chris Stephens. Part Two Visible histories - invisible histories: "Passionless reformers" - the museum and the city in utopia, Nicole Pohl; the return of the Muses - Edinburgh as a Museion, Volker M. Welter; the space of history - modern museums from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier, Anthony Vidler; Brasilia, a national capital without a museum, Valerie Fraser; "Where oppositions disintegrate and grow complicated" - the Maeght Foundation, Jan Birksted.
