Part 1: "Please don't touch the ceiling" - the culture of appropriation; museum theatre in the 1990s - trailblazer or camp-follower?; childhood's pattern - appropriation by generation; presenting a divisive culture - two exhibitions at the Ulster folk and transport museum; appropriating the visitor by addressing the second person; mobile museum in India; labour history in museums; Briton, Boer and black savage South Africa; an archaeology of the DeWitt Wallace gallery at colonial Williamsburg; museums and indigenous peoples in Canada. Part 2 Reviews, edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill: museums and galleries and their audiences - a literature review; the museum and education - a new gallery at the British Museum, London; Snibston Discovery Park - a review from an Indian perspective; the alchemy of play - Eureka! the Museum of Children; archaeologists and aesthetes; call for papers for forthcoming volumes.
