Introduction: Simon Knell Shaping museums and manifestos 1 Establishing the paradigmatic museum: Georges Cuvier's Cabinet d'anatomie comparée in Paris Philippe Taquet 2 William Bullock: inventing a visual language of objects Susan Pearce 3 Museums, fossils and the cultural revolution of science: mapping change in the politics of knowledge in early nineteenth-century Britain Simon J. Knell 4 Establishing the manifesto: art histories in the nineteenth-century museum Christopher Whitehead 5 Economic logic versus Enlightenment rationality: evolution of the museum-zoo-garden complex and the modern Indian city, 1843-1900 Savithri Preetha Nair 6 Occupying the architecture of the gallery: spatial, social and professional change at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1877-1933 Suzanne MacLeod 7 Modernity and identity: the National Museum of Iran Ali Mozaffari 8 Science centres: a museums studies approach to their development and possible future direction Richard Toon 9 Before 'Te Maori': a revolution deconstructed Conal McCarthy 10 Museums, social responsibility and the future we desire Robert R. Janes Changing places, changing people 11 Making Pakeha histories in New Zealand museums: community and identity in the post-war period Bronwyn Labrum 12 History museums, community identities and a sense of place: rewriting histories Sheila Watson 13 Museums and the shaping of cultural identities: visitors' recollections in local museums in Taiwan Chia-Li Chen 14 Political and social influences affecting the sense of place in municipal museums in Portugal Marta Anico and Elsa Peralta 15 Ecomuseums and sustainability in Italy, Japan and China: concept adaptation through implementation Peter Davis 16 Maori, museums and the Treaty of Waitangi: the changing politics of representation and control David Butts 17 Cultural entrepreneurs, sacred objects and the living museums of Africa Evelyn Tegomoh 18 Charting the boundaries: Indigenous models and parallel practices in the development of the post-museum Moira G. Simpson 19 Where to from here? Repatriation of Indigenous human remains and 'the museum' Michael Pickering Articulating change: media, message, philosophy 20 Beyond nostalgia: the role of affect in generating historical understanding at heritage sites Kate Gregory and Andrea Witcomb 21 Visitors and learning: adult museum visitors' learning identities Lynda Kelly 22 Museums - drama, ritual and power Jem Fraser 23 Critical museum pedagogy and exhibition development: a conceptual first step Margaret A. Lindauer 24 Learning at the museum frontiers: democracy, identity and difference Viv Golding 25 Moral lessons and reforming agendas: history museums, science museums, contentious topics and contemporary societies Fiona Cameron 26 'Who knows the fate of his bones?' Rethinking the body on display: object, art or human remains? Mary M. Brooks & Claire Rumsey 27 From the document to the monument: museums and the philosophy of history Beth Lord 28 Education, postmodernity and the museum Eilean Hooper-Greenhill