Shelley Ruth Butler is a cultural anthropologist who teaches at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. Erica Lehrer is Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies at Concordia University.

"This book takes the wonderfully original idea to get those who usually write about museums to come up with proposals for their 'dream' exhibitions. The result is thought-provoking and sometimes brilliantly inventive." Sharon Macdonald, Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin "A ground-breaking book." Robert Fulford, National Post "A highly inventive and intellectually rewarding approach to thinking about the world." The Globe & Mail "The essays expand the curatorial imagination to empathically and collectively intervene, inspire, and heal." ARLIS/NA Reviews "Accessibly written and engaging, Curatorial Dreams is an ambitious pronouncement on 'civically-engaged scholarship' and its dialectic with a self-reflexive public museum culture, a must-read for museum studies scholars and practitioners alike." Internati

Shelley Ruth Butler is a cultural anthropologist who teaches at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. Erica Lehrer is Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies at Concordia University.

"This book takes the wonderfully original idea to get those who usually write about museums to come up with proposals for their 'dream' exhibitions. The result is thought-provoking and sometimes brilliantly inventive." Sharon Macdonald, Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin "A ground-breaking book." Robert Fulford, National Post "A highly inventive and intellectually rewarding approach to thinking about the world." The Globe & Mail "The essays expand the curatorial imagination to empathically and collectively intervene, inspire, and heal." ARLIS/NA Reviews "Accessibly written and engaging, Curatorial Dreams is an ambitious pronouncement on 'civically-engaged scholarship' and its dialectic with a self-reflexive public museum culture, a must-read for museum studies scholars and practitioners alike." Internati

Shelley Ruth Butler is a cultural anthropologist who teaches at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. Erica Lehrer is Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies at Concordia University.

"This book takes the wonderfully original idea to get those who usually write about museums to come up with proposals for their 'dream' exhibitions. The result is thought-provoking and sometimes brilliantly inventive." Sharon Macdonald, Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin "A ground-breaking book." Robert Fulford, National Post "A highly inventive and intellectually rewarding approach to thinking about the world." The Globe & Mail "The essays expand the curatorial imagination to empathically and collectively intervene, inspire, and heal." ARLIS/NA Reviews "Accessibly written and engaging, Curatorial Dreams is an ambitious pronouncement on 'civically-engaged scholarship' and its dialectic with a self-reflexive public museum culture, a must-read for museum studies scholars and practitioners alike." Internati