Museum Worlds: Advances in Research
Volume 11 (2023)
Editorial
Conal McCarthy and Alison K. Brown
Articles
National Showing Off and Telling Off: Reflections from the Ethnological Museum in Germany’s Humboldt Forum
Sharon Macdonald
“What Am I Supposed To Say?”: Engagement, Epistemic Friction, and Exhibitionary Practice at the South African Museum and !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre
Megan Mulder
“The Museum is for All Cultures”: Monologue and Multivocality—The Dilemma of the Nambya Community Museum in North Western Zimbabwe
Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya and Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi
We Need to Talk about Class: Towards a Class-Based Approach in Contemporary Museum Theory and Practice
Serena Iervolino and Domenico Sergi
Climate Change and the Museum: Decolonizing and Decarbonizing Parallels and Consequences
David C. Harvey
Revisiting Cultural Participation in Museums: An Early Community Outreach Experience in Mexico City
Leticia Pérez-Castellanos
Memories from the Margins: Remembering China’s ‘Red Age’ in a Minjian Museum
Lisheng Zhang
The Arts as a Vocation: National Cultural Policymaking in a Time of Uncertain Everything
Julian Meyrick
Research in Other Forms: Reports, Articles, Conversations, etc
Look Left and Right: Resetting Museology in a Culture of Crisis
Kylie Message
The Future of Museums: Why Real Matters More Than Ever
David Prince and Daniel Laven
Air Connectivity and Proximity of Large Airports as an Added Value for Museums
Lázaro Florido-Benítez
Managing Quality and Motivating Innovation: Revisiting Museum Industry Awards in China and Their Effects
Jin Yang and Jingfang Ai
Virgin in a Condom and Te Papa: 25 Years On
Mark Stocker
Empowering Learners through the Integration of Museum Experiences and Digital Technologies
Chang Xu and Tara Fagan
Dispatches
Photographs from the Poignant Project at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge; The Solidarity in Action Network; The Canadian Museum Association’s Moved to Action Report; Towards a Decolonization of the Ethnographic Displays at the National Museum of Namibia; MuseumFutures Africa Project; Museum Matters in Africa
Kirsty Kernohan, Bernadette Lynch, Lucy Bell, Goodman Gwasira, Sophia Olivia Sanan, and Jesmael Mataga
Leading Thinkers in the Field
Centering the Museum: A Conversation with Elaine Heumann Gurian
Conal McCarthy
Review Essays
Arte de los Pueblos de México: Disrupciones Indígenas; Arte Popular: The Creative and Critical Power of Latin Americans; Creating a Wellbeing Experience in an Art Gallery; Outwitting Knowledge Silos in the Museum; The Museum Is Dead, Long Live the Museum
Anthony Alan Shelton, Laura Osorio Sunnucks, Joanna Cobley, Hannah Star Rogers, Adam Bencard, Andrea Krieg, and Ken Arnold
Exhibition Reviews
Arktis: Medan isen smälter (The Arctic: While the Ice Is Melting); Empowering Art: Indigenous Creativity and Activism from North America’s Northwest Coast; The New Austronesia Hall; Changsha Mawangdui Han Dynasty Tombs Exhibition; Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion; The Tenth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Isabelle Gapp, Rose Taylor, Ching-yueh Hsieh, Jingjing Zhou, Caroline Colbran, and Emily Poore
Book Reviews
Stephanie Sipei Lu, Aayushi Gupta, Linnea Wallen, Jesmael Mataga, Jason Gibson, Peter Brunt, Una Dubbelt-Leitch, Liam Holmes, Yimamu Dilinuer, and Jayne Warwick
Publishing in the Archives Profession 