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<p>List of Illustrations ix</p> <p>Editors xiii</p> <p>General Editors xiv</p> <p>Contributors xv</p> <p>Editors’ Preface to <i>Museum Transformations </i>and <i>The International Handbooks of Museum Studies </i>xvii</p> <p>Introduction: Museums in Transformation: Dynamics of Democratization and Decolonization xxv<br /><i>Annie E. Coombes and Ruth B. Phillips</i></p> <p><b>Part I Difficult Histories 1</b></p> <p>1. The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and Its Information Center: Concepts, Controversies, Reactions 3<br /><i>Sibylle Quack</i></p> <p>2. Ghosts of Future Nations, or The Uses of the Holocaust Museum Paradigm in India 29<br /><i>Kavita Singh</i></p> <p>3. The International Difficult Histories Boom, the Democratization of History, and the National Museum of Australia 61<br /><i>Bain Attwood</i></p> <p>4. <i>Where are the Children? </i>and “<i>We Were So Far Away …</i>”: Exhibiting the Legacies of Residential Schools, Healing, and Reconciliation 85<br /><i>Jonathan Dewar</i></p> <p>5. Recirculating Images of the “Terrorist” in Postcolonial Museums: The Case of the National Museum of Struggle in Nicosia, Cyprus 113<br /><i>Gabriel Koureas</i></p> <p>6. Reactivating the Colonial Collection: Exhibition-Making as Creative Process at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam 133<br /><i>Mary Bouquet</i></p> <p>7. “Congo As It is?”: Curatorial Reflections on Using Spatial Urban History in the <i>Memory of Congo: The Colonial Era </i>Exhibition 157<br /><i>Johan Lagae</i></p> <p>8. Between the Archive and the Monument: Memory Museums in Postdictatorship Argentina and Chile 181<br /><i>Jens Andermann</i></p> <p>9. The Gender of Memory in Postapartheid South Africa: The Women’s Jail as Heritage Site 207<br /><i>Annie E. Coombes</i></p> <p><b>Part II Social Agency and the Museum 227</b></p> <p>10. An Ethnography of Repatriation: Engagements with Erromango, Vanuatu 229<br /><i>Lissant Bolton</i></p> <p>11. Of Heritage and Hesitation: Reflections on the Melanesian Art Project at the British Museum 249<br /><i>Nicholas Thomas</i></p> <p>12. The Blackfoot Shirts Project: “Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit” 263<br /><i>Alison K. Brown and Laura Peers</i></p> <p>13. “Get to Know Your World”: An Interview with Jim Enote, Director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico 289<br /><i>Gwyneira Isaac</i></p> <p>14. The <i>Paro Manene </i>Project: Exhibiting and Researching Photographic Histories in Western Kenya 311<br /><i>Christopher Morton and Gilbert Oteyo</i></p> <p>15. Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Curatorship, Knowledge Networks, and Social Transformation in Sierra Leone 337<br /><i>Paul Basu</i></p> <p>16. On Not Looking: Economies of Visuality in Digital Museums 365<br /><i>Kimberly Christen</i></p> <p>17. Preserving the Physical Object in Changing Cultural Contexts 387<br /><i>Miriam Clavir</i></p> <p><b>Part III Museum Experiments 413</b></p> <p>18. The Last Frontier: Migratory Culture, Video, and Exhibiting without Voyeurism 415<br /><i>Mieke Bal</i></p> <p>19. Public Art/Private Lives: The Making of <i>Hotel Yeoville </i>439<br /><i>Tegan Bristow, Terry Kurgan and Alexander Opper</i></p> <p>20. Museums, Women, and the Web 471<br /><i>Reesa Greenberg</i></p> <p>21. Möbius Museology: Curating and Critiquing the Multiversity Galleries at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia 489<br /><i>Jennifer Kramer</i></p> <p>22. When You Were Mine: (Re)Telling History at the National Museum of the American Indian 511<br /><i>Paul Chaat Smith</i></p> <p>23. Against the Edifice Complex: Vivan Sundaram’s <i>History Project </i>and the Colonial Museum in India 527<br /><i>Saloni Mathur</i></p> <p>24. Can National Museums be Postcolonial?: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Obligation of Redress to First Nations 545<br /><i>Ruth B. Phillips</i></p> <p>Index 575</p>

<p><b>ANNIE E. COOMBES</b> is Professor of Material and Visual Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, where she teaches museum studies and art and cultural history. She is Director of the Peltz Gallery and author of award-winning books on museums, memorialization, and the legacy of colonialism. <p><b>RUTH B. PHILLIPS</b> is Canada Research Professor of Art History at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She has served as director of the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology and teaches and publishes on Indigenous North American art and critical museology.

<p><b>MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS</b></br> DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION <p><b>Edited <small>B</small>y ANNIE E. COOMBES <small>AND</small> RUTH B. PHILLIPS</b> <p><i>Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization</i> addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography responded to deconstructive critiques from activists and poststructuralist and postcolonial theorists, and provided models for change to other types of museums and heritage sites. <p>The volume's first set of essays discuss the role of the museum in the narration of difficult histories, and how altering the social attitudes and political structures that enable oppression requires the recognition of past histories of political and racial oppression and colonization in museums. Subsequent essays consider the museum's new roles in social action and discuss experimental projects that work to change power dynamics within institutions and leverage digital technology and new media. <p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOKS OF MUSEUM STUDIES</b></br> General Editors: Sharon Macdonald and Helen Rees Leahy <p><i>The International Handbooks of Museum Studies</i> is a multi-volume reference work that represents a state-of-the-art survey of the burgeoning field of museum studies. Featuring original essays by leading international museum experts and emerging scholars, readings cover all aspects of museum theory, practice, debates, and the impact of technologies. The four volumes in the series, divided thematically, offer in-depth treatment of all major issues relating to museum theory; historical and contemporary museum practice; mediations in art, design, and architecture; and the transformations and challenges confronting the museum. In addition to invaluable surveys of current scholarship, the entries include a rich and diverse panoply of examples and original case studies to illuminate the various perspectives. Unprecedented for its in-depth topic coverage and breadth of scholarship, the multi-volume <i>International Handbooks of Museum Studies</i> is an indispensable resource for the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. <p><b>SHARON MACDONALD</b> is Professor of Social Anthropology in the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Üniversität zu Berlin, where she also directs the CARMAH, the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage. <p><b>HELEN REES LEAHY</b> is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester, where she was Director of the Centre for Museology from 2002–2017.

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