55:4 October 2012
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Cover: The WALL, a 6-foot-by-32-foot (2-by-10-meter) digital, interactive, multi-user, multi-touch electronic screen in front of the Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark. See “Exhibitions.” Photo by Caspar Miskin
FORUM
- Edward Rodley: The Ethics of Exhibiting Salvaged Shipwrecks
THE THOUGHTFUL MUSEUM
- Leslie Bedford: Musing about Time and Museums
- Leah Reisman: For Whom Are We Building These Gems? Redefining Impact at the Museo Textil de Oaxaca
- David Carrier: Touring Yuzi Paradise Art Park, Guilin, China
ARTICLES
- Jay Rounds: The Museum and Its Relationships as a Loosely Coupled System
- Volker Kirchberg, Martin Tröndle: Experiencing Exhibitions: A Review of Studies on Visitor Experiences in Museums
- Liam Smith, Betty Weiler, Amy Smith, Pieter van Dijk: Applying Visitor Preference Criteria to Choose Pro-wildlife Behaviors to Ask of Zoo Visitors
EXHIBITIONS
- Jette Sandahl: Disagreement Makes Us Strong?
DIGITAL
- Nancy Proctor, Titus Bicknell: Apple After Steve Jobs, Re: Museums
RESEARCH NOTE
- Andrew J. Pekarik, James B. Schreiber: The Power of Expectation
BOOKS
- Mark O’Neill: Open Conversations: Public Learning in Libraries and Museums
- David Carrier: Museums Matter: In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum; Who Owns Antiquity: Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage
- Christopher Whitehead: The Thing about Museums: Objects and Experience, Representation and Contestation
- David Clarke: National Museums: New Studies from around the World
Author Index
Cumulative Index Volume 55 Author Index