Making museums matter / Stephen E. Weil.

Includes bibliographical references.

Organization-wide quality : a theory of museums and [sic] immodest proposal -- F(Fe)TMu -- From being about something to being for somebody : the ongoing transformation of the American Museum -- Fantasy islands -- Museums : can and do they make a difference? -- New words, familiar music : the museum as a social enterprise -- Transformed from a cemetery of bric-a-brac -- The distinctive numerator -- A parable of rocks and reasons -- Romance versus realism : a reflection on the nature of museums -- Museum publishing : some revolutions in progress -- If content is out, aesthetics must be in -- The museum at the end of time -- Collecting then, collecting today : what's the difference? -- Twenty-one ways to buy art -- Courtly ghosts and aristocratic artifacts -- Reduced to art -- John Cotton Dana's new museum -- The museum and the public -- The American legal response to the problem of Holocaust art -- Fair use and the visual arts : please leave some room for Robin Hood -- Cloning and copyright -- Fair use and museum use : how close is the overlap? -- Not money, control.