Museums and memory / edited by Susan A. Crane.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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