Physical Description
vi, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contents
Exhibiting memories / Steven Lubar
For museum audiences : the morning of a new day? / William H. Truettner
Hope diamond : gem, jewel, and icon / Richard Kurin
Herbert Ward's "ethnographic sculptures" of Africans / May Jo Arnoldi
Capable of flight : the saga of the 1903 Wright airplane / Tom D. Crouch
Crystal skulls and other problems : or, "don't look it in the eye" / Jane Maclaren Walsh
Curating the recent past : the Woolworth lunch counter, Greensboro, North Carolina / William Yeinst and Lonnie G. Bunch
Unstifled muse : the "All in the family" exhibit and popular culture at the National Museum of American History / Ellen Roney Hughes
Zuni Archangels and Ahayu:da : a sculpted chronicle of power and identity / William W. Fitzhugh
Ambassadors in sealskins : exhibiting Eskimos at the Smithsonian / William W. Fitzhugh
Curators as agents of change : an insect zoo for the nineties / Sally Love
Now for something completely different : reconstructing Duke Ellington's Beggar's Holiday for presentation in a museum setting / Dwight Blocker Bowers.
Other Authors/Editors
Henderson, Amy.
Kaeppler, Adrienne L.,
ISBN
1560986905
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
