Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Preface viii
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction: Perspectives on Museums and Historical Consciousness in Canada 3
7. Programming Historical Consciousness
8. The Royal Ontario Museum, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Critical Public Engagement 21
9. The Voices of the Canoe Project: Weaving Together Indigenous and Western Historical Knowledge Traditions 39
10. The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum: A Model Institution 60
11. Public Pedagogy and the Museum: The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, for Example 78
12. Measuring Historical Consciousness
13. Changing Views? Emotional Intelligence, Registers of Engagement, and the Museum Visit 101
14. Using Museum Resources and Mobile Technologies to Develop Teens’ Historical Thinking: Formative Evaluation of an Innovative Educational Set-Up 122
15. Museums as In-Between Institutions: Can They Be Trusted? 142
16. The Concept of Historical Consciousness Applied to Museums: A Case Study of the Exhibition People of Québec … Then and Now 162
17. Instrumentalizing Historical Consciousness
18. Controversy as Catalyst: Administrative Framing, Public Perception, and the Late-Twentieth-Century Exhibitionary Complex in Canada 181
19. The Gift of Historical Consciousness: Museums, Art, and Poverty 206
20. Museums and the Responsibility Gap 223
21. Out of the Box and into the Fold: Museums, Human Rights, and Changing Pedagogical Practices 243
22. Epilogue: The Blossoming of Canadian Museology and Historical Consciousness 261
23. Contributors 274
24. Index 278