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Andrea Witcomb and Kylie Message

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Sharon Macdonald and Helen Rees Leahy

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Museum Theory – The international handbooks of museum studies / edited by Andrea Witcomb,Kylie Message / general editors: Sharon Macdonald, Helen Rees Leahy. – First edition.

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1. Museums. 2. Museum exhibits. I. Macdonald, Sharon. II. Leahy, Helen Rees. AM5.I565 2015 069–dc23

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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

1 8.1 Design Museum exhibit

2 10.1 Interior shot of the Musée du Quai Branly, 2013

3 10.2 Exterior shot of the National Museum of the American Indian, 2012

4 10.3 Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

5 10.4 Lisa Reihana, He Tautoko , 2006, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge

6 10.5 Installation view of Otobong Nkanga, Facing the Opponent , Weltkulturen Museum

7 12.1 Saatchi Gallery mark 3

8 12.2 Scott King, Pink Cher , Saatchi Gallery mark 3

9 12.3 Installation view: Scott King and Steven Claydon, Newspeak Part One , 2010

10 12.5 Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991

11 12.6 Damien Hirst, For the Love of God , 2007