chapter0 Introduction: The Power of Touch, Elizabeth Pye; Part 1 Science of Touch; Chapter 1 Weighing Up the Value of Touch, Alan Wing, Christos Giachritsis, Roberta Roberts; Chapter 2 Making Sense of Touch: A Multisensory Approach to the Perception of Objects, Charles Spence; Part 2 History Of Touch; Chapter 3 Archaeology of Touch: Babylonian Magic and Healing, Mark Geller; Chapter 4 For Your Eyes Only? the Magic Touch of Relics, Jan Geisbusch; Chapter 5 Don't Touch! Hands off! art, Blindness and the Conservation of Expertise, Fiona Candlin; Part 3 Professional Touch; Chapter 6 Exploring the Role of Touch in Connoisseurship and the Identification of Objects, Sally MacDonald; Chapter 7 Understanding Objects: The Role of Touch in Conservation, Elizabeth Pye; Part 4 Touch and Memory; Chapter 8 The Elderly as 'Curators' in North London, Michael Rowlands; Chapter 9 Easing the Transition: Using Museum Objects with Elderly People, Claire Jacques; Part 5 Touch and Memory; Chapter 10 The Touch Experience in Museums in the UK and Japan, Julia Cassim; Chapter 11 Touching Art, Touching You: Blindart, Sense & Sensuality, Sharareh Khayami; Chapter 12 Learning Through Touch, Tara Trewinnard-Boyle, Emily Tabassi; Chapter 13 To Play or Not to Play: Making a Collection of Musical Instruments Accessible, Andrew Lamb; Chapter 14 Collaborative Touch: Working with a Community Artist to Restore a Kwakwaka'wakw Mask, Jessica Johnson; Part 6 Virtual Touch; Chapter 15 Touching Ghosts: Haptic Technologies in Museums, David Prytherch, Marie Jefsioutine; Chapter 16 Exploring Virtual Touch in the Creative Arts and Conservation, Angela Geary;
