The essays in this volume consider museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars. Representing a variety of fields history, anthropology, art history, and museum scholarship the contributors discuss museums across disciplinary boundaries that have separated art museums from natural history museums or local history museums from national galleries.
Memory operates thematically among the essays in diverse and provocative ways.
The contributors are Susan A. Crane, Wolfgang Ernst, Michael Fehr, Paula Findlen, Tamara Hamlish, Alexis Joachimides, Suzanne Marchand, Julia A. Thomas, and Diana Drake Wilson. Cultural Sitings Susan A. Crane is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Arizona. She is the author of the forthcoming Collecting and Historical Consciousness.