Museum Worlds
Advances in Research
Aims & Scope
Editors: Sandra Dudley, University of Leicester and Kylie Message, Australian National University
Museum Worlds: Advances in Research is a new, multi-disciplinary, refereed, annual journal from Berghahn Journals that will publish work that significantly advances knowledge of global trends, case studies and theory relevant to museum practice and scholarship around the world.
Responding to the need for a rigorous, in-depth review of current work in the broad field of Museum Studies, Museum Worlds: Advances in Research will contribute to the ongoing formation of Museum Studies, as an academic and practical field of research which is rapidly expanding and alive with potential, opportunity and challenge that parallels the rapid growth of museums in just about every part of the world.
Museum Worlds: Advances in Research aims to trace and comment on major regional, theoretical, methodological and topical themes and debates, and encourage comparison of museum theories, practices, and developments in different global settings. Each issue includes a conversation piece on a current topic, as well as peer reviewed scholarly articles and review articles, book and exhibition reviews, and news on developments in museum studies and related curricula in different parts of the world. Drawing on the expertise and networks of a global Editorial Board of senior scholars and museum practitioners, the journal will both challenge and develop the core concepts that link different disciplinary perspectives on museums by bringing new voices into ongoing debates and discussions. Articles will be of exceptional quality and general interest from around the world.
Forthcoming Issue
Volume 1, 2013
Editorial
Sandra Dudley and Kylie Message
ARTICLES
Critical Museology: A Manifesto
Anthony Shelton
The End of the Beginning: Normativity in the Postdigital Museum
Ross Parry
National Museums, Globalization, and Postnationalism: Imagining a Cosmopolitan Museology
Rhiannon Mason
Colonial Visions: Egyptian Antiquities and Contested Histories in the Cairo Museum
Christina Riggs
Heritage: Renovation, Relocation, Remediation, and Repositioning Museums
Mary Bouquet
Piazzas or Stadiums: Toward an Alternative Account of Museums in Cultural and Urban Development
Lisanne Gibson
Exhibitions as Research: Displaying the Technologies That Make Bodies Visible
Anita Herle
‘Ceremonies of Renewal’: Visits, Relationships, and Healing in the Museum Space
Laura Peers
Cultural Collisions in Socially Engaged Artistic Practice: ‘Temple Swapping’ and Hybridity in the Work of Theaster Gates
Janet Marstine
CONVERSATION
Museums in a Global World: A Conversation on Museums, Heritage, Nation, and Diversity in a Transnational Age
Convened by Conal McCarthy and edited by Jennifer Walklate
REPORTS
After the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge Workshop Report
Workshop Report
Joshua A. Bell, Kimberly Christen, and Mark Turin
International Seminar on Museums and the Changing Cultural Landscape, Ladakh Conference and Project Report
Conference and Project Report
Daniel M. Knight
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Steampunk, Bradford Industrial Museum, UK
Jeanette Atkinson
Framing India: Paris-Delhi-Bombay . . ., Centre Pompidou, Paris
Tracy Buck
E Tū Ake: Māori Standing Strong/Māori: leurs trésors sont une âme, Te Papa, Wellington, and Musée du quai Branly, Paris
Simon Jean
The New American Art Galleries, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Alan Wallach
Scott’s Last Expedition, The Natural History Museum, London
Peter Davis
Left-Wing Art, Right-Wing Art, Pure Art: New National Art, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Ewa Klekot
Focus on Strangers: Photo Albums of World War II
Philipp Schorch
A Museum That Is Not: A Fanatical Narrative of What a Museum Can Be
Wing Yan Vivian Ting
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, QAGOMA, Brisbane
Caroline Turner and Glen St John Barclay
James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
Jennifer Wagelie
Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands, QAGOMA, Brisbane, and Awakening: Stories from the Torres Strait, Queensland Museum, Brisbane
Graeme Were
BOOK REVIEWS
Buszek, Maria Elena, ed., Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art
Fiona P. McDonald
Hansen, Tone, ed., (Re)Staging the Art Museum
Fiona P. McDonald
Phillips, Ruth B., Museum Pieces: Towards the Indigenization of Canadian Museums
Conal McCarthy
Sandell, Richard, and Eithne Nightingale, eds., Museums, Equality and Social Justice
Shelley Ruth Butler