Museums and memory / edited by Susan A. Crane.

1. Introduction : Of museums and memory / Susan A. Crane -- Part I. Thinking through the museum: 2. Archi(ve)textures of museology / Wolfgang Ernst -- 3. A museum and its memory : the art of recovering history / Michael Fehr -- 4. Curious cabinets and imaginary museums / Susan A. Crane -- 5. Geoffrey Sonnabend's "obliscence : theories of forgetting and the problem of matter" / an encapsulation courtesy of the Museum of Jurassic Technology -- Part II. Memories in the museum: 6. History and anti-history : photography exhibitions and Japanese national identity / Julia Adeney Thomas -- 7. Realizing memory, transforming history : Euro/American/Indians / Diana Drake Wilson -- 8. Global culture, modern heritage : re-membering the Chinese imperial collections / Tamara Hamlish -- Part III. Collectors and institutions: 9. The modern muses : Renaissance collecting and the cult of remembrance / Paula Findlen -- 10. The quarrel of the ancients and moderns in the German museums / Suzanne Marchand -- 11. The museum's discourse on art : the formation of curatorial art history in turn-of-the-century Berlin / Alexis Joachimides.