New Issue: Museum Worlds

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Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 
Volume 13 (2025) 
Table of Contents 

Editorial 
Alison K. Brown and Conal McCarthy 

I. Articles 
Finding a Form: A short account of a Small Voluntary Group Working with the National Trust on the Care and Return of the Māori Ancestress Hinemihi 
Haidy Geismar 

Making Archaeological Parks in China 
Shu-Li Wang 

Dizzying Endings: On the Multiple Alterlives of a Living Exhibition 
Martin Grünfeld 

Eclectic Collections: Un-disciplining the Museum 
Jordan Kistler and Will Tattersdill 

II. Special Section 
Editorial Introduction: Making Museum Professionals 
Kate Hill and Claire Wintle 

“An Excellent Guide to Her Own Museum”: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Professional Roles on a Visit from Scotland to Trinidad, 1898 
Kirsty Kernohan 

Precarity, Resilience, and Chen Wanli’s Museum Career in Twentieth-Century China 
Feng Schöneweiß 

“Men! Let’s Stick Together This Time”: A Review of Collective Action in US Art Museums, 1930s–Present 
Amanda Tobin Ripley 

In Conversation: Museum Activism for Democracy and Anti-Racism in South Africa: A Career in District Six 
Bonita Bennett and interviewed by Claire Wintle 

Problems of Ecological Excess: Necro-economies of Pest Management in the Museum 
Nushelle de Silva 

“Ready for Anything”: Front-of-House Staff and Mediating Controversy 
Laharee Mitra 

In Conversation: Museum Work and Experiences of Restitution 
Calixte Biah and interviewed by Bénédicte Savoy 

III. Research in Other Forms: Articles, Reports, Conversations etc. 
African Collections in Scottish Museums: Material Evidence of Scotland and Empire 
John D. Giblin, Nikki Grout, and Zachary Kingdon 

Exploring Digital Exhibitions: Typologies, Design Strategies, and Visitor Engagement 
Martin Siefkes and Julia A. J. Pfeiffer 

A Whare Taonga for Perth: Collaborative Pacific Displays at Perth Museum 
Amber Aranui, Dougal Austin, Migoto Eria, Mark Hall, Kirsty Kernohan, JP Reid, Pauline Reynolds, Awhina Tamarapa, Kararaina Te Ira, Te Kenehi Teira, and Anna Zwagerman 

Forum or Assembly?: Governance and Diplomacy at the Humboldt Forum, Berlin 
Anthony Alan Shelton and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas 

Armenian Woman: Victim and Heroine of the Armenian Genocide: Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan, Armenia 
Gevorg H. Vardanyan and Seda A. Parsamyan 

IV. Teaching and Learning in Museums, Museum Studies, and Related Fields 
Museum-Based Learning for Online Collections Students: Is It Possible? 
Luke Keogh, Ashleigh Giffney, Molly Culbertson, and Lorinda Cramer 

A Co-constructive Pedagogy for Early Childhood Art Education in the Art Museums of Aotearoa New Zealand 
Esther Helen McNaughton and Lisa Terreni 

Perspectives on Co-production of Knowledge in Fieldwork Experience for 3D Preservation of Indigenous Heritage 
Addison Vallier, Lily McEwen, Abigail Bailey, Brennan Meyerhoff, Peyton Smith, Alexandra Taitt, Lisa Ellanna, Julie Raymond-Yakoubian, and Medeia Csoba Dehass 

V. Review Essays 
Pauline Reynolds, Dipti Sherchan, Julia Richard, and Paride Bolletin 

VI. Exhibition Reviews 
Amanda Thompson, Peter Brunt, Yahao Wang, Xiyuan Cai, and Ann Marie Peña 

VII. Performance Review 
Faovale Imperium: James Nokise and DJ Don Luchito Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 5 September 2024 
Arjunvir Singh 

VIII. Book Reviews 
Chanté St Clair Inglis, Stacy L. Boldrick, Jaimie Luria, Emma Martin, and Nicole Anderson 

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New Issue: Museum Worlds

Museum Worlds, vol. 12 (2024)
(open access)

Editorial 
Conal Mccarthy and Alison K. Brown 

I. Articles 
Expanded Loans as Forms of Indigenous Access, Reconnection, and Sovereignty: Mnaajtood ge Mnaadendaan—Miigwewinan Michi Saagiig Kwewag Miinegoowin Gimaans Zhaganaash Aki 1860 / To Honour and Respect—Gifts from the Michi Saagiig Women to the Prince of Wales, 1860 
Laura Peers, Lori Beavis, and Christine Beavis 

Community Collaborations and Social Biographies of Museum Collections from Colonial Contexts: Meanings of Zulu Beadwork 
Njabulo Chipangura and Motsane Getrude Seabela 

Digitization Is Not Decolonization: South Africa’s Amagugu Ethu Museum Project and Colonial Documentation in Digital Times 
Laura Gibson 

II. Special Section 
Introduction: Beyond the Nature/Culture Divide—Reimagining Human–Environment Relations in and through Museums 
Philipp Schorch and Nicholas Thomas 

The Entwined Human and Environmental Costs of the Colonial Project: Perspectives from Natural History Collections 
Jack Ashby 

Intertwining the Ethno-botanical Amazonian Collections of Spix and Martius and Beyond 
Gabriele Herzog-Schröder 

A Munduruku Headdress: Transforming the Relations between Natural History and Ethnography 
Anita Herle 

Curating the In-Between: A New Approach at BIOTOPIA–Naturkundemuseum Bayern 
Samara Rubinstein and Colleen M. Schmitz 

A Landscape of Well-Being: Bridging the “Nature–Culture Divide” at Trumpington Meadows Country Park, Cambridge 
Jody Joy 

III. Reports and Dispatches 
Connecting Collections: Transforming Access to Museum Collections at Scale for Knowledge Generation in Australia 
Jason M. Gibson, Gaye Sculthorpe, Alistair Paterson, and Andrea Witcomb 

Preserving Indigenous Knowledges and Practices as Moana Oceania Diaspora in Aotearoa: Views from Niue and Kiribati 
Lagi-Maama and Jackie Leota-Mua 

Enhancing the Usability of Stored Museum Items: Loans and Exchanges 
Lara Corona 

New Urban Peace in Delhi: The Partition Museum 
Neha Khetrapal  

Setting Agendas for Mass Media: The Case of the Beijing Palace Museum 
Zhitong Mu 

Report on CoMuseum 2023: Museums and Justice: 13th CoMuseum International Conference, 6–8 December 2023 
Sophia Handaka 

IV. Review Essays 
Our Colonial Inheritance; The Loud Archive: Love & Loss and the Critical Theory of Emotion and Affect; The Northwest Coast Hall Reimagined; The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do; Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums; The Weave of “Fashion Diplomacy”; Interpreting Africa in South Korea; Ecological Art Exhibitions in London 
Mary Caton Lingold, Camus Wyatt, Bryony Onciul, Andy Everson, Jaimie N. Luria, Olga Zabalueva, Matthew Raj Webb, Sumi Kim, and Sara Selwood 

V. Exhibition Reviews 
Radical Stitch; Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania; Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance; The Light of Day: Unearthing the Past; Polarity: Fire & Ice; Tibuta – Kinaakiia Ainen Kiribati: Tibuta – Identifies Kiribati Women; Cellphone: Unseen Connections; The Tora-san Memorial Museum 
Linda Grussani, Rachel E. Smith, Garance Nyssen, Luiza de Paula Souza Serber, Na’ankwat Kwapnoe-Dakup, Jessica Hope van Heerden, Maraya Takoniatis, Emelihter Kihleng, Amrita Ibrahim, and Yi Wang 

VI. Book Reviews 
Dóra Bobory, Anamaría Rojas Múnera, Dan Spock, Brian Yang, Conal Mccarthy, Anthony Alan Shelton, Anna Woodham, Kirsty Kernohan, Varda Nisar, Jorunn Jernsletten, Anne Malmendier, Arnar Árnason, Yi Zheng, and Lanzhou Luo 

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