Contents: Preface; General introduction: what are museums for?; Creating historical effects: The fictions of factual representation, Hayden White; Psychoanalysis and its history, Michel de Certeau; Rome, the archetypal museum, and the Louvre, the negation of division, Jean-Louis Deotte; Poetics of the museum: Lenoir and Du Sommerard, Stephen Bann; Telling objects: a narrative perspective on collecting, Mieke Bal; Instituting evidence: Collective memory and memoria rerum: an architecture for thinking, Mary Carruthers; Science-honour-metaphor: Italian cabinets of the 16th and 17th centuries, Giuseppe Olmi; Natural history and the emblematic world view, William B. Ashworth Jr; The museum: its classical etymology and Renaissance genealogy, Paula Findlen; Inventing Assyria: exoticism and reception in 19th-century England and France, Frederick N. Bohrer; Building shared imaginaries/effacing otherness: Double visions, Homi K. Bhabha; Teddy bear patriarchy: taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-36, Donna Haraway; From princely gallery to the public art museum: the Louvre museum and the National Gallery, London, Carol Duncan; Museums and the formation of national and cultural identities, Annie E. Coombes; Creating identity: exhibiting the Philippines at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Beverly K. Grindstaff; Performing identity: the museal framing of Nazi ideology, Sandra Esslinger; The cosmic theme park of the Javanese, Shelly Errington; Observing subjects/Disciplining practice: Introduction to museum without walls, Andre Malraux; Texts/contexts: of other spaces, Michel Foucault; Power/knowledge - constructed space and the subject, Paul Q. Hirst; Museums: managers of consciousness, Hans Haacke; The exhibitionary complex, Tony Bennett; Orientalism and the exhibitionary order, Timothy Mitchell; China in Britain: the imperial collections, Craig Clunas; Secularizing rituals: The museum of modern art as late capitalist ritual: an iconographical analysis, Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach; Animals as cultural signs: collecting animals in 16th-century Medici Florence, Claudia Lazzaro; Remarks on the collection of Rudolf II: the Kunstkammer as a form of Representatio, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann; Philip Hainhofer and Gustavus Adolfus's Kunstschrank, Hans-Olof Bostroem; Museums in 18th-century Rome, Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny; The genesis and early development of the Royal Museum in Stockholm: a claim for authenticity and legitimacy, Magnus Olausson and Solfrid Soederlind; The cultural logic of the late capitalist museum, Rosalind Krauss; Collision, Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska; Inclusions and exclusions: representing adequately: Cultural reflections, Moira Simpson; Histories of the tribal and the modern, James Clifford; Always true to the object, in our fashion, Susan Vogel; From primitivism to ethnic arts, Rasheed Araeen; Museums are good to think: heritage on view in India, Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge; Remaking passports: visual thought in the debate on multiculturalism, Nestor Garcia Canclini; Our (museum) world turned upside down: representing native American arts, Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: an account of collaboration between artists, trustees and an architect, Jo-Anne Berelowitz; The identity card project and the Tower of Faces at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Andrea Liss; Where is 'Africa'? Re-viewing art and artifact in the age of globalization, Ruth B. Philips; Index.
