Museum Transformations

ANNIE E. COOMBES 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. RUTH B. PHILLIPS 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.

• List of Illustrations ixEditors xiiiGeneral Editors xivContributors xvEditors’ Preface to Museum Transformations and The International Handbooks of Museum Studies xviiIntroduction: Museums in Transformation: Dynamics of Democratization and Decolonization xxvAnnie E. Coombes and Ruth B. PhillipsPart I Difficult Histories 11. The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and Its Information Center: Concepts, Controversies, Reactions 3Sibylle Quack2. Ghosts of Future Nations, or The Uses of the Holocaust Museum Paradigm in India 29Kavita Singh3. The International Difficult Histories Boom, the Democratization of History, and the National Museum of Australia 61Bain Attwood4. Where are the Children? and “We Were So Far Away …”: Exhibiting the Legacies of Residential Schools, Healing, and Reconciliation 85Jonathan Dewar5. Recirculating Images of the “Terrorist” in Postcolonial Museums: The Case of the National Museum of Struggle in Nicosia, Cyprus 113Gabriel Koureas6. Reactivating the Colonial Collection: Exhibition-Making as Creative Process at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam 133Mary Bouquet7. “Congo As It is?”: Curatorial Reflections on Using Spatial Urban History in the Memory of Congo: The Colonial Era Exhibition 157Johan Lagae8. Between the Archive and the Monument: Memory Museums in Postdictatorship Argentina and Chile 181Jens Andermann9. The Gender of Memory in Postapartheid South Africa: The Women’s Jail as Heritage Site 207Annie E. CoombesPart II Social Agency and the Museum 22710. An Ethnography of Repatriation: Engagements with Erromango, Vanuatu 229Lissant Bolton11. Of Heritage and Hesitation: Reflections on the Melanesian Art Project at the British Museum 249Nicholas Thomas12. The Blackfoot Shirts Project: “Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit” 263Alison K. Brown and Laura Peers13. “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 289Gwyneira Isaac14. The Paro Manene Project: Exhibiting and Researching Photographic Histories in Western Kenya 311Christopher Morton and Gilbert Oteyo15. Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Curatorship, Knowledge Networks, and Social Transformation in Sierra Leone 337Paul Basu16. On Not Looking: Economies of Visuality in Digital Museums 365Kimberly Christen17. Preserving the Physical Object in Changing Cultural Contexts 387Miriam ClavirPart III Museum Experiments 41318. The Last Frontier: Migratory Culture, Video, and Exhibiting without Voyeurism 415Mieke Bal19. Public Art/Private Lives: The Making of Hotel Yeoville 439Tegan Bristow, Terry Kurgan and Alexander Opper20. Museums, Women, and the Web 471Reesa Greenberg21. Möbius Museology: Curating and Critiquing the Multiversity Galleries at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia 489Jennifer Kramer22. When You Were Mine: (Re)Telling History at the National Museum of the American Indian 511Paul Chaat Smith23. Against the Edifice Complex: Vivan Sundaram’s History Project and the Colonial Museum in India 527Saloni Mathur24. Can National Museums be Postcolonial?: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Obligation of Redress to First Nations 545Ruth B. PhillipsIndex 575