55:2 April 2012

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Cover: The Ncome River - Blood River - in South Africa. Here 13,000 Zulus fought a bitter defining battle with 500 white settlers known as Voortrekkers on December 16,1838. Photo by Tom Hennes

Forum                                                 

• Stephen Bitgood, Ross J. Loomis: Chan Screven’s Contributions to Visitor Studies

The Thoughtful Museum

• Ken Walibora Waliaula: Remembering and Disremembering in Africa

• Tom Hennes: Remembering and Disremembering: A Museum Perspective

• Ken Yellis: Concerning the Telling of Painful Tales: The Case of Masks of the Sacred Bush

Articles

• Roy Ballantyne, Jan Packer, Nigel Bond: Interpreting Shared and Contested Histories: The Broken Links Exhibition

• Meltem Parlak: Cultural Ants Project

• Adriana Briseño-Garzón, David Anderson: “My Child is Your Child”: Family Behavior in a Mexican Science Museum

• Antoniette M. Guglielmo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art as an Adjunct of Factory: Richard F. Bach and the Resolution Between Gilman’s Temple and Dana’s Department Store

Digital

• Robert Stein: Chiming in on Museums and Participatory Culture

Exhibitions

• David Carrier: Art and National Identity: Some Museums in Prague

Books

• Steven Lubar: Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World

• Gordon Fyfe: The Red Museum: Art, Economics and the End of Capital

• Tony Butler: Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes

• Ray Oldenburg: The Convivial Museum