Museum Theory

12 12.7 Pyramid of the Capitalist System , IWW poster, 1911

13 16.1 Bunjil’s wing kinetic sculpture, First Peoples exhibition, Melbourne Museum

14 16.3 Maree Clarke, Meen Warrann (smallpox), First Peoples exhibition, Melbourne Museum

15 19.1 A zombie of anatomy, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University

16 23.1 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, The Vale of Kashmir , 1995

17 23.2 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Afghan Traders, Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan , 2007–2009

18 23.3 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, History Painting: Market, Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan , 2008

19 23.4 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Helicopter Landing, View from Roof of Morgue, Southern Iraq , 2007–2009

20 23.5 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Styx , 2005

21 23.6 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Hare Rama Hare Krishna , 2008 – 2009

22 24.3 Michelle Guyton, interpretive scrapbook on September 11, 2001

23 25.2 Poetry Tree, Strathewen, 2010, Museum Victoria x

1 8.1 Design Museum exhibit

2 8.2 Design Museum poster

3 9.1 M. NourbeSe Philip, excerpts from Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence , 1991 and Royal Ontario Museum invitation

4 10.1 Interior shot of the Musée du Quai Branly, 2013

5 10.2 Exterior shot of the National Museum of the American Indian, 2012

6 10.3 Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

7 10.4 Lisa Reihana, He Tautoko , 2006, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge

8 10.5 Installation view of Otobong Nkanga, Facing the Opponent , Weltkulturen Museum

9 12.1 Saatchi Gallery mark 3

10 12.2 Scott King, Pink Cher , Saatchi Gallery mark 3

11 12.3 Installation view: Scott King and Steven Claydon, Newspeak Part One , 2010

12 12.4 Alberto Korda, Guerrillero Heroico , 1960

13 12.5 Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living , 1991

14 12.6 Damien Hirst, For the Love of God , 2007

15 12.7 Pyramid of the Capitalist System , IWW poster, 1911

16 16.1 Bunjil’s wing kinetic sculpture, First Peoples exhibition, Melbourne Museum

17 16.2 Language map showing message sticks and the relationship to Country, First Peoples exhibition, Melbourne Museum

18 16.3 Maree Clarke, Meen Warrann (smallpox), First Peoples exhibition, Melbourne Museum

19 16.4 Treaty and Tanderrum section of “ Our Story,” First Peoples exhibition, Melbourne Museum

20 19.1 A zombie of anatomy, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University

21 19.2 Object landscape of the Swedish National Heritage Board, Stockholm, 1926

22 19.3 Evolutionary walk, Swedish History Museum, shortly after opening in 1866

23 19.4 Remains of the old anatomical collection of Uppsala University

24 23.1 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, The Vale of Kashmir , 1995

25 23.2 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Afghan Traders, Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan , 2007 – 2009

26 23.3 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, History Painting: Market, Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan , 2008

27 23.4 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Helicopter Landing, View from Roof of Morgue, Southern Iraq , 2007 – 2009

28 23.5 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Styx , 2005

29 23.6 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Hare Rama Hare Krishna , 2008 – 2009

30 24.1 Poster distributed by Jeffrey Wiener’s family members in their search after 9/11

31 24.2 Firefighter’s pry bar carried by Lt. Kevin Pfeifer, FDNY

32 24.3 Michelle Guyton, interpretive scrapbook on September 11, 2001

33 24.4 Comment card from September 11: Bearing Witness to History exhibition

34 25.1 Sign, Devon North, Gippsland, February 8, 2009

35 25.2 Poetry Tree, Strathewen, 2010, Museum Victoria

36 25.3 Leadbeater’s possum nest box, Lake Mountain, 2010, Museum Victoria

Andrea Witcombis a Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University and a Deputy Director (Research) of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. Her research interests range across the museum and heritage fields and are informed by theoretical, historical, and professional practice concerns. She brings an interdisciplinary approach to her research, locating her work at the intersection of history, museology, and cultural studies. Her work is driven by a desire to understand the ways in which a range of heritage practices can be used to foster cross?cultural understandings and dialogue as well as the history of collecting as part of colonialism. Her work explores the uses of immersive interpretation strategies in museums and heritage sites, the role of memory and affect in people’s encounters with objects and displays, and, more recently, the place of collecting practices as an embodiment of colonial relations. Andrea is the author of Re-imagining the Museum: Beyond the Mausoleum (Routledge, 2003) and, with Chris Healy, the co-editor of South Pacific Museums: An Experiment in Culture (Monash University ePress, 2006). Her latest book, co?written with Kate Gregory, is From the Barracks to the Burrup: The National Trust in Western Australia (UNSW Press, 2010).

Professor Andrea Witcomb

Deputy Director (Research)

Alfred Deakin Research Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

Deakin University

Victoria, Australia

Kylie Messageis Professor of Public Humanities in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. Her research examines the relationships between cultural organisations, citizenship, government, and political reform movements. She has written extensively about the ways that museums across the world have been involved in and identified as sites of activism and controversy, and her research has made a significant contribution to the way various participants and stakeholders understand the political history and impact of culture. She is the author of Museums and Social Activism: Engaged Protest (Routledge, 2013); New Museums and the Making of Culture (Bloomsbury, 2006); and most recently, The Disobedient Museum: Writing at the Edge (Routledge, 2018); Museums and Racism (Routledge, 2018); and Archiving Activism: The Occupy Wall Street Collection (Routledge, 2019). She is the Founding Editor of Routledge’s ‘Museums in Focus’ book series.

Professor Kylie Message

ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

The Australian National University

Canberra ACT, Australia

Sharon Macdonaldis Alexander van Humboldt Professor in Social Anthropology at the Humboldt University Berlin where she directs the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage–CARMAH. The centre works closely with a wide range of museums. Sharon has edited and coedited volumes include the Companion to Museum Studies (Blackwell, 2006); Exhibition Experiments (with Paul Basu; Blackwell, 2007); and Theorizing Museums (with Gordon Fyfe; Blackwell, 1996). Her authored books include Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum (Berg, 2002); Difficult Heritage: Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond (Routledge, 2009); and Memorylands: Heritage and Identity in Europe Today (Routledge, 2013). Her current projects include Making Differences: Transforming Museums and Heritage in the 21stCentury .