Preface
by Stephen Richards Graubard
Muses, Museums, and Memories
by Bonnie Pitman
The Divided House of the American Art Museum
by Neil Harris
On Museum Row: Aesthetics and the Politics of Exhibition
by Chon A. Noriega
Museum Exhibitions and the Dynamics of Dialogue
by Kathleen McLean
An Agenda for American Museums in the Twenty-First Century
by Harold Skramstad
Museums of the Future: The Impact of Technology on Museum Practices Elaine
by Maxwell L. Anderson
What is the Object of this Exercise? A Meandering Exploration of the Many Meanings of Objects in Museums
by Heumann Gurian
Museums as Centers of Controversy
by Willard L. Boyd
From Being about Something to Being for Somebody: The Ongoing Transformation of the American Museum
by Stephen E. Weil
Museums as Institutions for Personal Learning
by John H. Falk
In Search of Relevance: Science Centers as Innovators in the Evolution of Museums
by Emlyn H. Koster
Formed and Forming: Contemporary Museum Architecture
by Susanna Sirefman
Is “The Idea of a Museum” Possible Today?
by Victoria Newhouse
Museums: An Alternate Typology
by Charles Correa
On the Museum of the Twenty-First Century: An Homage to Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
by Bernard Tschumi/Bernard Tschumi Architects