Roger Miles is Head of the Department of Public Services at the Natural History Museum in London, where he has been responsible for a long series of major exhibitions for the general public., Lauro Zavala is Professor in the Department of Education and Communication at the Metropolitan Autonomous University at Xochimilco in Mexico City.

`This volume is an informative, stimulating and timely book...there is much in it for informed museum visitor to enjoy and muse over...We should all take heart from the energy, conviction and commitment expressed by these various authors: with their passionate belief in the continuing and renewed value of museums we can be confident that if our paymasters are also convinced, that museums will be flourishing and growing well into the 21st century.' - Museum News

• Per Albrech, Director of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain, Dr Bernhard Graf, Institut fur Museumskunde, Germany, Dr Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, University of Leicester, Mr Jan Hjorth, Riksutstallningar, Sweden, Mr Pippo Lionni, Integral Concept, France, Dr Robert Lumley , University College London, Dr Paulette McManus, Dr Melanie Quin , NINT Technologie Museum, The Netherlands, Mr Ian Ritchie, Ian Ritchie Architects, London, Professor Bernard Schiele, University of Quebec, Canada, Professor Roger Silverstone, University of Sussex, Mrs Gillian Thomas, The Science Museum, London and Dr PJ Vergo, University of Essex.