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Selma Holo is Professor of Art History at University of Southern California and Director of USC's Fisher Museum of Art and International Museum Institute. She is the author of Beyond the Prado: Museums and Identity in Democratic Spain and Oaxaca at the Crossroads: Managing Memory, Negotiating Change and a coeditor of Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values. Mari-Tere Alvarez is Project Specialist at the J. Paul Getty Museum and Associate Director of USC's International Museum Institute. She coedited Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values and Arts, Crafts, and Materials in the Age of Global Encounter, 1492-1800, a special edition of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History.

• Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Panarchy and the MuseumChapter One. Origins Reflecting on OriginsSelma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, United StatesWhat Legacy Will We Leave on These Walls?Óscar Arias Sánchez, Costa RicaA Project to Create a Peace Museum in Costa Rica: A Nation That Abolished the ArmyManuel Araya-Incera, Costa RicaRethinking the Spirit of a Museum: Atzompa Archaeological SiteNelly M. Robles García, MexicoLessons Learned in the Principles and Practice of Community MuseumsCuauhtémoc Camarena and Teresa Morales, MexicoThe Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, or, the Reconstitution of a History of ArtHéctor Feliciano, Puerto RicoPeru Does Not Need MuseumsMario Vargas Llosa, PeruA Mexican National Museum in Chicago: Integrating CulturesCarlos Tortolero, United StatesThe Multinodal Institution: Going Off the GridLori Starr, United StatesThe Museum of OaxacaEdward Rothstein, United StatesChapter Two. Conserving Reflections on Conserving: Conservation and ConservatismSelma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, United StatesConservation, Stewardship, and the Future of AMA: Art Museum of the Americas, Part ILydia Bendersky, ChileStewardship and the Future of AMA: Art Museum of the Americas, Part IIAndrés Navia, Colombia For Whom the Human Remains?Ben Garcia, United StatesReimagining an Ethical Approach to Museum CollectionsStephen E. Nash and Chip Colwell, United StatesSmall Museums and the “Cultural Revolution” in Venezuela, 2001–2012Guillermo Barrios, VenezuelaRepairing a Lost History in Rio de Janeiro: A Challenge for the Twenty-First CenturyPiedade Grinberg, BrazilOn and Off the Hill in Los Angeles: Making Connections and Making a DifferenceClare Kunny, United States Art and Beyond: Some Contemporary Challenges for Art and Anthropology MuseumsIvan Gaskell, United StatesA Museum Is a Museum Is a Museum Is a Museum: Museums and NetworksVanda Vitali, CanadaChapter Three. UncertaintyReflecting on Uncertainty and ReformSelma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, United StatesFreeing Up Art MuseumsMaxwell L. Anderson, United StatesThe Arts and Citizens in Transition: A Case Study from the PulitzerKristina Van Dyke, United StatesThe Contemporary Museum in a New Creative AgendaRichard Koshalek and Erica Clark, United StatesA New “Place” for Museums in the Digital AgeSusana Smith Bautista, United StatesThe Artist in Crisis: The Artist Embracing SocietyDemian Flores, MexicoMuseum Freefall: Excerpts from a Long Conversation at the Getty MuseumFred Wilson and David Wilson, United StatesA Mountain of Broken Mirrors: Museums with a Social ApproachMarco Barrera Bassols, MexicoThe Planet’s Flatulence and the Likelihood of Our ExtinctionAlejandro de Ávila B., MexicoChapter Four. Renewal Reflection, Renewal, and RebirthSelma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, United StatesA New Vision for a Treasured Canadian Institution and the Opportunities and Challenges We Face along the WayJames D. Fleck with Nichole Anderson, CanadaWhat’s the Big Idea? Rethinking the Permanent CollectionGraham W. J. Beal, United StatesReimagining Access to the MetThomas P. Campbell, United StatesRethinking Immigrant Integration in the American South: Can Museums Help Communities Address a Major Social Challenge?Tom Hanchett, United StatesA Rebirth: Th e (New) Nevada Museum of Art, a Museum of IdeasJoAnne S. Northrup and William Fox, United StatesReenvisioning Children and Families into the Museum: Arts for NexGen, LACMAJane Burrell and Karen Satzman, United States100 Years Later: Th e Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Reactivated and ReimaginedJane G. Pisano, United StatesReinvention: Collector as CustodianPatricia Phelps de Cisneros, VenezuelaTales from the Ibero-American Museum Network: Realigning the PowerSantiago Palomero Plaza, SpainRealigning Mexican Museums in Today’s World: Some Proposals for Communication, Development, and Evaluation of Our Museum InstitutionsMiguel Fernández Félix, MexicoCreating Your Own Conversations in a Panarchy of MuseumsOur Writers: A Pan-American HighwayContributors