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Table of Contents
Introduction: Museums and Biographies - telling stories about people, things and relationships - Kate Hill
A Show of Generosity: Donations and the intimacy of display in the 'Cabinet des médailles et antiques' in Paris from 1830 to 1930 - Felicity Bodenstein
Introducing Mr Moderna Museet: Pontus Hultén and Sweden's Museum of Modern Art - Stuart Burch
Sydney Pavière and the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston - Laura Gray
'His Best Successor': Lady Eastlake and the National Gallery - Julie Sheldon
Women, Museums and the Problem of Biography - Anne Whitelaw
A Curatocracy: Who and What is a V&A Curator? - Linda Sandino
Significant Lives: telling stories of museum architecture - Suzanne MacLeod
Schinkel's Museums: Collecting and displaying architecture in Berlin, 1844-1933 - Wallis Miller
Personifying the Museum: Incorporation and Biography in American Museum History - Jeffrey Abt
Making an Exhibition of Ourselves - Helen Rees Leahy
Institutional autobiography and the architecture of the art museum: restoration and remembering at the National Gallery in the 1980s - Chris Whitehead
Classifying China: shifting interpretations of Buddhist bronzes in Liverpool Museum, 1867-1997 - Louise Tythacott
'Dressed like an Amazon': the transatlantic trajectory of a red feather coat - Mariana Francozo
Individual, collective and institutional biographies: The Beasley collection of Pacific artefacts - Lucie Carreau
Sculptural biographies in an anthropological collection: Mrs Milward's Indian 'types' - Mark Elliott
Houses and Things: Literary House Museums as Collective Biography - Alison Booth
'Keepers of the Flame': biography, science and personality in the museum - Sophie Forgan
National History as Biography: Alexandre Lenoir's Museum of French Monuments - Alexandra Stara
Autobiographical museums - Belinda Nemec
Who is History? The use of autobiographical accounts in history museums - Steffi De Jong
Community biographies: character, rationale and significance - Elizabeth Crooke
Endpiece: The Homunculus and the Pantograph, or, Narcissus at the Met - Donald Preziosi
A Show of Generosity: Donations and the intimacy of display in the 'Cabinet des médailles et antiques' in Paris from 1830 to 1930 - Felicity Bodenstein
Introducing Mr Moderna Museet: Pontus Hultén and Sweden's Museum of Modern Art - Stuart Burch
Sydney Pavière and the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston - Laura Gray
'His Best Successor': Lady Eastlake and the National Gallery - Julie Sheldon
Women, Museums and the Problem of Biography - Anne Whitelaw
A Curatocracy: Who and What is a V&A Curator? - Linda Sandino
Significant Lives: telling stories of museum architecture - Suzanne MacLeod
Schinkel's Museums: Collecting and displaying architecture in Berlin, 1844-1933 - Wallis Miller
Personifying the Museum: Incorporation and Biography in American Museum History - Jeffrey Abt
Making an Exhibition of Ourselves - Helen Rees Leahy
Institutional autobiography and the architecture of the art museum: restoration and remembering at the National Gallery in the 1980s - Chris Whitehead
Classifying China: shifting interpretations of Buddhist bronzes in Liverpool Museum, 1867-1997 - Louise Tythacott
'Dressed like an Amazon': the transatlantic trajectory of a red feather coat - Mariana Francozo
Individual, collective and institutional biographies: The Beasley collection of Pacific artefacts - Lucie Carreau
Sculptural biographies in an anthropological collection: Mrs Milward's Indian 'types' - Mark Elliott
Houses and Things: Literary House Museums as Collective Biography - Alison Booth
'Keepers of the Flame': biography, science and personality in the museum - Sophie Forgan
National History as Biography: Alexandre Lenoir's Museum of French Monuments - Alexandra Stara
Autobiographical museums - Belinda Nemec
Who is History? The use of autobiographical accounts in history museums - Steffi De Jong
Community biographies: character, rationale and significance - Elizabeth Crooke
Endpiece: The Homunculus and the Pantograph, or, Narcissus at the Met - Donald Preziosi
Reviews
[D]eeply engaging and accessible, providing unique and varied snapshots into the lives and histories of museums and of those associated with them, while at the same time asking deep questions of agency, knowledge, affect, narrative, object, and self. H-NET
For the academic historian new to the debate on what makes history in museums, the variety of content, particularly in the latter half of this edited volume gives some sense of the complexity of the subject. There is much of interest that can also be garnered from the first part, not least in considering how museums and their collections came into being. REVIEWS IN HISTORY
Informed, informative, and a highly recommended addition to academic library reference collections. MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
For the academic historian new to the debate on what makes history in museums, the variety of content, particularly in the latter half of this edited volume gives some sense of the complexity of the subject. There is much of interest that can also be garnered from the first part, not least in considering how museums and their collections came into being. REVIEWS IN HISTORY
Informed, informative, and a highly recommended addition to academic library reference collections. MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
