Museums and memory - USA: Stanford University Press, 2000 - 257 p.

List of contributors

1. Introduction: of museums and memory

Susan a. Crane

Part 1. Thinking through the museum

2. Archi(ve)textures of museology

Wolfgang ernst

3. A museum and its memory: the art of recovering history

Michael fehr

4. Curious cabinets and imaginary museums

Susan a. Crane

5. Geoffrey sonnabend's "obliscence: theories of forgetting and the problem of matter"

An encapsulation courtesy of the museum of jurassic technology

Part 11. Memories in the museum

6. History and anti-history: photography exhibitions and japanese national identity

Julia adeney thomas

7. Realizing memory, transforming history:

Euro / american / indians

Diana drake wilson

8. Global culture, modern heritage: re-membering the

Chinese imperial collections

Tamara hamlish



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