Part 1 Objects and people: making sense of exhibits, Paulette McManus; perceptions of objects - museum artefacts in a world of goods, Alan Radley; how objects become meaningful, Eileen Hooper-Greenhill. Part 2 Images and meanings: is the spark plug mightier than the pen? - text and object in the museum, Ghislaine Lawrence; partial truths - representations of women in museums, Gaby Porter; museum images of a multicultural society, Nima Smith. Part 3 The language of exhibitions: objects and meanings - a post structuralist approach, Susan Pearce; museum semiotics, Maria Baretto; how language means an alternative view of museum text, Helen Coxall.
