Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: commitment to community 1
5. Part I The national museum: mission, leadership, and audience
6. 1 Self-creation: defining cultural identity within museum exhibitions 17
7. 2 Home movies: cultural recovery and the value of display 25
8. 3 Creating community one voice at a time: traveling exhibition programs that help create community 43
9. 4 Expanding the museum audience through visitor research 51
10. 5 Community building through fund-raising 65
11. 6 Board development: fiduciary responsibility and collaboration through strategic planning 75
12. Part II Collaborative dimension at the local and national levels
13. 7 The national partnership program: a model for community collaborations 89
14. 8 Coming to Terms: America’s Concentration Camps 101
15. 9 Finding family stories: institutional collaborations 123
16. 10 The regenerations project: a comparative collaboration in community oral history 131
17. 11 Dialogues from common ground 141
18. 12 All roads lead to boyle heights: exploring a los angeles neighborhood 149
19. 13 History, current events, and a network link: the japanese american national museum and the arab community center for economic and social services 167
20. Part III Collaborative dimensions in transnational and global settings
21. 14 International exchanges at museu histórico da imigração japonesa no brasil 179
22. 15 Museum exhibitions in a transnational setting: collaborations in education methodology 189
23. 16 Building community through global research 195
24. Conclusion 207
25. Editors and contributors 213
26. Index 217