Museum Transformations. Группа авторов

      Professor Ruth B. Phillips Canada Research Professor and

      Professor of Art History Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture

      Carleton University Ottawa, ON, Canada

      GENERAL EDITORS

      Sharon Macdonald is Alexander van Humboldt Professor in Social Anthropology at the Humboldt University Berlin where she directs the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage – CARMAH. The centre works closely with a wide range of museums. Sharon has edited and coedited volumes include The Companion to Museum Studies (Blackwell, 2006); Exhibition Experiments (with Paul Basu; Blackwell, 2007); and Theorizing Museums (with Gordon Fyfe; Blackwell, 1996). Her authored books include Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum (Berg, 2002); Difficult Heritage: Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond (Routledge, 2009); and Memorylands: Heritage and Identity in Europe Today (Routledge, 2013). Her current projects include Making Differences. Transforming Museums and Heritage in the 21st Century.

      Professor Sharon Macdonald Alexander van Humboldt Professor in Social Anthropology

      Institute for European Ethnology Humboldt University of Berlin

      Berlin, Germany

      Helen Rees Leahy is Professor Emerita of Museology at the University of Manchester, where, between 2002 and 2017 she directed the Centre for Museology. Previously, Helen held a variety of senior posts in UK museums, including the Design Museum, Eureka! The Museum for Children, and the National Art Collections Fund. She has also worked as an independent consultant and curator, and has organized numerous exhibitions of art and design. She has published widely on practices of individual and institutional collecting, in both historical and contemporary contexts, including issues of patronage, display and interpretation. Her Museum Bodies: The Politics and Practices of Visiting and Viewing was published by Ashgate in 2012.

      Professor Emerita Helen Rees Leahy

      Centre for Museology School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

      University of Manchester

      Manchester, UK

      CONTRIBUTORS

      Jens Andermann, University of Zurich, Switzerland

      Bain Attwood, Monash University, Australia

      Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

      Paul Basu, University College London, UK

      Lissant Bolton, British Museum, London, UK

      Mary Bouquet, University College Utrecht, The Netherlands

      Tegan Bristow, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

      Alison K. Brown, University of Aberdeen, UK

      Miriam Clavir, Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Canada

      Annie E. Coombes, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

      Jonathan Dewar, Director of the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre and Special Advisor to the President at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

      Reesa Greenberg, Carleton University and York University, Canada

      Gwyneira Isaac, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA

      Gabriel Koureas, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

      Jennifer Kramer, University of British Columbia and Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Canada

      Terry Kurgan, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

      Johan Lagae, Ghent University, Belgium

      Saloni Mathur, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

      Christopher Morton, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, UK

      Alexander Opper, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

      Gilbert Oteyo, independent researcher, Kenya

      Laura Peers, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, UK

Ruth B. Phillips, Carleton University, Canada

      Sibylle Quack, Leibniz Universität, Hannover, Germany

      Kavita Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

      Paul Chaat Smith, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, USA

      Nicholas Thomas, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK

      Kimberly Christen, Washington State University, USA

      EDITORS’ PREFACE TO MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOKS IN MUSEUM STUDIES

       Museum Transformations

      As general editors of The International Handbooks in Museum Studies, we – Sharon Macdonald and Helen Rees Leahy – are delighted that Museum Transformations is now appearing in paperback, as a self‐standing volume. So too are the other volumes, which is testament to the strength of these volumes individually, as well as collectively, and to the importance of the issues that they each address. Museum Transformations explores a wide range of ways in which museums seem to be changing, and examines how far the ‘tranformational energies’ that can be witnessed in many parts of the globe, represent ramifying reconfiguration of museums. This is a major focus of interest for museum studies, identifying as it does not only what has been happening but also what the future might bring. Deciding which are the key transformations – especially when retrospect is only sometimes and then usually only partly available – is inevitably a major challenge.

      That challenge is, however, one that the editors of Museum Transformations, Annie E.Coombes and Ruth B.Phillips tackled with great insight and deep knowledge of the field. Writing now from the vantage point of 2019, it is clear to us as general editors that they absolutely had their fingers on the pulse, as is thoroughly evident from the resulting volume. The range of topics included and the ways in which they are tackled clearly highlight not only what is already in transformation but also potential future trajectories – and, in some cases, dreams that are already on their way to becoming realities.

       The International Handbooks in Museum Studies

Collectively, The International Handbooks in Museum Studies include over a hundred original, state‐of‐the‐art chapters on museums and museum studies. As such, they are the most comprehensive review to date of the lively and expanding field of museum studies. Written by a wide range of scholars and practitioners – newer voices as well as those already widely esteemed – The International Handbooks provide not only extensive coverage of key topics and debates in the museum field, but also make a productive contribution to emerging debates and areas, as well as to suggest how museum studies – and museums – might develop in the future.

      The number of excellent contributors able and willing to write on museum