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, 1904-191 -Neil Sharp; exhibiting antipodean narratives - tracing the Perth museum sit -Hannah Lewis; symbolic capital - the Frankfurt museum boom of the 1980 -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.
