1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Thinking Through the Museum
6. 2. Archi(ve)textures of Museology 15
7. 3. A Museum and Its Memory: The Art of Recovering History 35
8. 4. Curious Cabinets and Imaginary Museums 60
9. 5. Geoffrey Sonnabend's "Obliscence: Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter" 81
10. Part II. Memories in the Museum
11. 6. History and Anti-History: Photography Exhibitions and Japanese National Identity 91
12. 7. Realizing Memory, Transforming History: Euro I American I Indians 115
13. 8. Global Culture, Modern Heritage: Re-membering the Chinese Imperial Collections 137
14. Part III. Collectors and Institutions
15. 9.The Modern Muses: Renaissance Collecting and the Cult of Remembrance 159
16. 10. The Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns in the German Museums 179
17. 11. The Museum's Discourse on Art: The Formation of Curatorial Art History in Turn-of-the-Century Berlin 200
18. Notes 221
19. Index 253