Museum Practice

12.1 Interactive pest viewer, KE EMu database

12.2 An example of interpretive content on the “Variety of Life,” part of a free smart phone and tablet application for the Living Worlds gallery, Manchester Museum

12.3 Results for a search on “Captain Cook” from Collections Online, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

12.4 Matches for “William Hunter Ramsay” from the Europeana project, harvested from the UK’s Culture Grid

12.5 Screen shot of the Your Paintings Tagger showing an oil painting of Sir Ian Colquhoun of Luss (ca. 1933) by Herbert James Gunn, from the collection of the West Dunbartonshire Council

12.6 Screen shot of YouTube clip on the investigation of Lindow Man, Collective Conversations project, Manchester Museum

13.1 The Burra Charter process, with its sequence of investigations, decisions, and actions

14.1 The exhibition Sleeping and Dreaming at Wellcome Collection, London

16.1 A view of the vertebrate paleontology gallery after completion. The exhibition is titled A Changing World: Dinosaurs, Diversity, and Drifting Continents . Museum of Texas Tech University

16.2 Life cycle of a product or system

16.3 Rolled-out model, 2011

16.4 Linear model

17.1 Image from ART/artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections , Center for African Art, New York, 1988

17.2 Image from ART/artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections , Center for African Art, New York, 1988

17.3 “Taking Care” section of the Families exhibition. Minnesota History Center Museum, St. Paul

17.4 “F is for Fire Engine” in Minnesota A to Z, Minnesota History Center Museum, St. Paul

17.5 Minnesota’s Greatest Generation exhibit in the form of a crashed World War II aircraft. Minnesota History Center Museum, St. Paul

18.1 Model of Professor Baldwin Spencer, biologist, anthropologist, and honorary director of the National Museum of Victoria (1899–1928) on display in the exhibition Bunjilaka , 2001

18.2 Exhibition Hitler and the Germans. Nation and Crime , Berlin 2010. View of the section “Hitler and the Germans 1933–1945.” German Historical Museum

18.3 Exhibition Hitler and the Germans. Nation and Crime , Berlin 2010. View of the section “Hitler and the Germans 1933–1945.” German Historical Museum

18.4 Exhibition The Image of the “Other” in Germany and France from 1871 to the present , Paris 2008, Berlin 2009. German Historical Museum

18.5 Exhibition The Image of the “Other” in Germany and France from 1871 to the present , Paris 2008, Berlin 2009. German Historical Museum

18.6 Rebecca Belmore, Rising to the Occasion , 1987. Art Gallery of Ontario.

18.7 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Founding Identities gallery, 2011

19.1 Alison Brown and Andy Black Water examining the draft manuscript of a book on the Kainai Photos Project. Pitt Rivers Museum

19.2 Tom Tettleman and Richard LeBeau in front of the Ghost Dance Shirt after its return by Glasgow Museums to the Lakota Sioux, at South Dakota State Historical Society Museum

20.1 Dancers provide a traditional ceremonial “Welcome to country” upon the return of Larrakia ancestral remains, Mindil Beach, Darwin, Northern Territory, November 2002. National Museum of Australia

20.2 Larrakia families welcome the remains of their ancestors, Mindil Beach, Darwin, Northern Territory, November 2002. National Museum of Australia

21.1 Detail of a panel from the My Treasure community exhibition (Mid-Antrim and Causeway Museum Service) displayed at Coleraine Town Hall, Northern Ireland, July–August 2013

23.1 The “Arrivals” display in the exhibition Blood, Earth, Fire | Whāngai Whenua Ahi Kā , which opened in 2006 at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

23.2 The computer interactive in the “Arrivals” display in the exhibition Blood, Earth, Fire | Whāngai Whenua Ahi Kā , 2006, Te Papa, Wellington

24.1 Formal education versus learning through participation: the Victorian classroom and teacher at the Ragged School Museum, London

24.2 Two participants examining a traditional coffee pot as a part of the Asian Women’s Documenting the Home project at the Geffrye Museum, London

24.3 Older men with dementia in a day center using archive photographs of footballers to recall their past memories of playing and watching

24.4 Year 9 students (aged 13/14) in the British Museum using a Samsung tablet to access an interactive Augmented Reality activity

24.5 Youth forum/paid young consultants group discussing exhibitions, interpretation, marketing, and event-planning, Geffrye Museum, London

A2.1 Walk among Worlds , an installation by Máximo González, October 12 – November 10, 2013, at the Fowler Museum, UCLA

A2.2 Opening performance of the community-based collaborative exhibition Death Is Just Another Beginning , National Museum of Taiwan, Taipei

A2.3 Museum, Academia Sinica, Taipei

A2.4 Atrium, Capital Museum, Beijing

A2.5 Exhibit Gallery, Kokdu Museum, Seoul

A2.6 Box of Promises , collaborative work between George Nuku (Māori) and Cory Douglas (Squamish/Haida) in the exhibition Paradise Lost? Great Hall, Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver

A2.7 Entrance to The Marvellous Real: Art from Mexico 1926-2011 , Audain Gallery, Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver

A2.8 Imprint , choreographed by Henry Daniel and Owen Underhill. Great Hall, Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver

Conal McCarthyis Professor and Director of the Museum and Heritage Studies program at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Conal has degrees in English, Art History, Museum Studies, and Māori language and has worked in galleries and museums in a variety of professional roles: educator, interpreter, visitor researcher, collection manager, curator, and exhibition developer, as well as sitting on the boards and advisory groups of a number of institutions. He has published widely on museum practice, including the books Museums and Māori: Heritage Professionals, Indigenous Collections, Current Practice (2011), and Curatopia: Museums and the Future of Curatorship (2019).

Professor Conal McCarthy

Director Museum & Heritage Studies programme

Stout Research Centre

Victoria University of Wellington

Wellington

New Zealand

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 Nurembergand 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 21st Century .

Professor Sharon Macdonald

Alexander van Humboldt Professor in Social Anthropology

Institute for European Ethnology

Humboldt University of Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Helen Rees Leahyis Professor Emerita of Museology at the University of Manchester, where, between 2002 and 2017 she directed the Centre for Museology. Previously, Helen held a variety of senior posts in UK museums, including the Design Museum, Eureka!, The Museum for Children, and the National Art Collections Fund. She has also worked as an independent consultant and curator, and has organized numerous exhibitions of art and design. She has published widely on practices of individual and institutional collecting, in both historical and contemporary contexts, including issues of patronage, display and interpretation. Her Museum Bodies: The Politics and Practices of Visiting and Viewing was published by Ashgate in 2012.