Museums and the Appropriation of Culture

Abstract

Part 1: Please don't touch the ceiling - the culture of appropriation museum theatre in the 1990s - trailblazer or camp-follower? childhood's pattern - appropriation by generation presenting a divisive culture - two exhibitions at the Ulster folk and transport museum appropriating the visitor by addressing the second person mobile museum in India labour history in museums Briton, Boer and black savage South Africa an archaeology of the DeWitt Wallace gallery at colonial Williamsburg museums and indigenous peoples in Canada. Part 2 Reviews, edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill: museums and galleries and their audiences - a literature review the museum and education - a new gallery at the British Museum, London Snibston Discovery Park - a review from an Indian perspective the alchemy of play - Eureka! the Museum of Children archaeologists and aesthetes call for papers for forthcoming volumes.