Museums and the Challenge of Change

INTRODUCTION: THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE; SECTION 1: CONTEXT; Ch 1 Societal change; Ch 2 Museums and the Digital Revolution; A Jenny Kidd: Social Media and Participation: The selfie as a curious cultural artefact; B Rebecca O'Neill: Museums and Participatory Culture: Wikimedia and GLAM; C Daniel Brown: 'A series of interesting choices': Gaming and Gamification as Participation; SECTION 2: MUSEUMS IN THE WIDER WORLD; Ch 3 Engaging Diverse Audiences; Ch 4 The Activist Museum; D Tony Butler: Making the Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill; E Elizabeth Crooke: Participation, Trust and telling Difficult Histories in Museums; F Mark O'Neill, Pete Seaman & Duncan Dornan: Public Health and Museums: building a strategic partnership; G Merel van der Vaart et al: The Stedelijk Museum: facing the challenges of being truly of, by and for all; SECTION 3: DEVELOPING THE PARTICIPATIVE EXPERIENCE; Ch 5 The informal museum learning experience; Ch 6 Creating an inclusive and participative museum experience; Ch 7 Developing participative exhibits and activities; H Johannes Bernhardt: 'Slow Participation': the case of the Baden State Museum, Karlsruhe; I Kirsten Drotner: Joint creativity for democratic transformations in museums; J Hsiao-Te Hsu: A case study on Digital Technology, AI and Participation at the National Palace Museum, Taipei; K Mette Houlberg Rung: On Dialogue and the museum as social space; L Anders Sundnes Lovlie et al: Designing for interpersonal museum experience; M Philipp Schroegel: Showcasing Science and Facilitating Interaction: Science Slams in Museums; SECTION 4: MANAGING CHANGE; Ch 8 Managing Change; N Scott Cooper: Design (Re)Thinking a Legacy Institution - Strategic Planning at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia; P Kathryn Thomson: National Museums Northern Ireland: Managing Change, a Case Study; Ch 9 CONCLUDING THOUGHTS: IF NOT NOW, WHEN?