Viv Golding is Director of Research Students and Senior Lecturer in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Her most recent publication is Learning at the Museum Frontiers: Identity Race and Power and she is currently working on two Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded projects 'Behind the Looking Glass: 'Other' Cultures Within Translating Cultures' and 'Mapping Faith and Place in Leicester', and a Daiwa project 'Museum Literacy'. Wayne Modest is currently Head of the Curatorial Department at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. Previously he has been Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum and Director of the Museums of History and Ethnography at the Institute of Jamaica. Recent publications include 'Slavery and the (Symbolic) Politics of Memory in Jamaica: Rethinking the Bicentenary' in Laurajane Smith et al. (ed) Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements.

[Museums and Communities] supplies the current state of the theoretical and practical activity in museum studies. It shows that museums have made efforts to open themselves to diverse groups interested in creating new systems of representation. The authors remind us that artists' interventions in museums urge curators to be more responsible and involved, allowing for effective dialogue with communities within disputed histories.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UKPart One: Community Matters?Collaborative Museums: Curators, Communities, Collections - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UKThe City, Race, and the Creation of a Common History at the Virginia Historical Society - Eric Gable, University of Mary Washington, USANegotiating the Power of Art: Tyree Guyton and Detroit Communities - Bradley L. Taylor, University of Michigan, USALearning to Share Knowledge: Collaborative Projects In Taiwan - Marzia Varutti, University of Leicester, UKCommunity Engagement, Curatorial Practice and Museum Ethos in Alberta Canada - Bryony Onciul, Newcastle University, UKCo-Curating with Teenagers at the Horniman Museum - Wayne Modest, Tropenmuseum, the NetherlandsPart Two: Sharing Authority?Museums, Migrant Communities and Intercultural Dialogue in Italy - Serena Iervolino, University of Leicester, UKCommunity Consultation and the Redevelopment of Manchester Museum's Ancient Egypt Galleries - Karen Exell, University College London, Qatar, Doha'Shared Authority': Collaboration, Curatorial Voice and Exhibition Design in Canberra Australia - Mary Hutchison, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, AustraliaOne Voice to Many Voices?: Displaying Polyvocality in an Art Gallery - Rhiannon Mason, Chris Whitehead, and Helen Graham, Newcastle University, UKA Question of Trust: Addressing Historical Injustices with Romani-people - Åshild Andrea Brekke, Arts Council, Norway Part Three: Audiences and Social Justice? Audience Experiences?Creolising the Museum: Humour, Art and Young Audiences - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UKMuseums and Civic Engagement: Children Making a Difference - Elizabeth Wood, Indiana University-Purdue University, USACommunity Consultation in the Museum: The 2007 Bicentenary of Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade - Kalliopi Fouseki, University College London, UK and Laurajane Smith. Australian National University, AustraliaInterpreting the Shared Past Within the World Heritage Site of Göreme, Cappadocia Turkey - Elizabeth Carnegie, University of Sheffield, UK and Hazel Tucker, University of Otago, New ZealandTestimony, Memory and Art at the Jewish Holocaust Museum Melbourne Australia - Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University, AustraliaAfterword - A View from the Bridge in Conversation with Susan Pearce - Kirstin James, University of Leicester, UK, Petrina Foti, University of Leicester, UK and the EditorsIndex

Viv Golding is Director of Research Students and Senior Lecturer in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Her most recent publication is Learning at the Museum Frontiers: Identity Race and Power and she is currently working on two Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded projects 'Behind the Looking Glass: 'Other' Cultures Within Translating Cultures' and 'Mapping Faith and Place in Leicester', and a Daiwa project 'Museum Literacy'. Wayne Modest is currently Head of the Curatorial Department at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. Previously he has been Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum and Director of the Museums of History and Ethnography at the Institute of Jamaica. Recent publications include 'Slavery and the (Symbolic) Politics of Memory in Jamaica: Rethinking the Bicentenary' in Laurajane Smith et al. (ed) Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements.

[Museums and Communities] supplies the current state of the theoretical and practical activity in museum studies. It shows that museums have made efforts to open themselves to diverse groups interested in creating new systems of representation. The authors remind us that artists' interventions in museums urge curators to be more responsible and involved, allowing for effective dialogue with communities within disputed histories.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UKPart One: Community Matters?Collaborative Museums: Curators, Communities, Collections - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UKThe City, Race, and the Creation of a Common History at the Virginia Historical Society - Eric Gable, University of Mary Washington, USANegotiating the Power of Art: Tyree Guyton and Detroit Communities - Bradley L. Taylor, University of Michigan, USALearning to Share Knowledge: Collaborative Projects In Taiwan - Marzia Varutti, University of Leicester, UKCommunity Engagement, Curatorial Practice and Museum Ethos in Alberta Canada - Bryony Onciul, Newcastle University, UKCo-Curating with Teenagers at the Horniman Museum - Wayne Modest, Tropenmuseum, the NetherlandsPart Two: Sharing Authority?Museums, Migrant Communities and Intercultural Dialogue in Italy - Serena Iervolino, University of Leicester, UKCommunity Consultation and the Redevelopment of Manchester Museum's Ancient Egypt Galleries - Karen Exell, University College London, Qatar, Doha'Shared Authority': Collaboration, Curatorial Voice and Exhibition Design in Canberra Australia - Mary Hutchison, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, AustraliaOne Voice to Many Voices?: Displaying Polyvocality in an Art Gallery - Rhiannon Mason, Chris Whitehead, and Helen Graham, Newcastle University, UKA Question of Trust: Addressing Historical Injustices with Romani-people - Åshild Andrea Brekke, Arts Council, Norway Part Three: Audiences and Social Justice? Audience Experiences?Creolising the Museum: Humour, Art and Young Audiences - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UKMuseums and Civic Engagement: Children Making a Difference - Elizabeth Wood, Indiana University-Purdue University, USACommunity Consultation in the Museum: The 2007 Bicentenary of Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade - Kalliopi Fouseki, University College London, UK and Laurajane Smith. Australian National University, AustraliaInterpreting the Shared Past Within the World Heritage Site of Göreme, Cappadocia Turkey - Elizabeth Carnegie, University of Sheffield, UK and Hazel Tucker, University of Otago, New ZealandTestimony, Memory and Art at the Jewish Holocaust Museum Melbourne Australia - Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University, AustraliaAfterword - A View from the Bridge in Conversation with Susan Pearce - Kirstin James, University of Leicester, UK, Petrina Foti, University of Leicester, UK and the EditorsIndex

Viv Golding is Director of Research Students and Senior Lecturer in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Her most recent publication is Learning at the Museum Frontiers: Identity Race and Power and she is currently working on two Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded projects 'Behind the Looking Glass: 'Other' Cultures Within Translating Cultures' and 'Mapping Faith and Place in Leicester', and a Daiwa project 'Museum Literacy'. Wayne Modest is currently Head of the Curatorial Department at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. Previously he has been Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum and Director of the Museums of History and Ethnography at the Institute of Jamaica. Recent publications include 'Slavery and the (Symbolic) Politics of Memory in Jamaica: Rethinking the Bicentenary' in Laurajane Smith et al. (ed) Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements.

[Museums and Communities] supplies the current state of the theoretical and practical activity in museum studies. It shows that museums have made efforts to open themselves to diverse groups interested in creating new systems of representation. The authors remind us that artists' interventions in museums urge curators to be more responsible and involved, allowing for effective dialogue with communities within disputed histories.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UKPart One: Community Matters?Collaborative Museums: Curators, Communities, Collections - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UKThe City, Race, and the Creation of a Common History at the Virginia Historical Society - Eric Gable, University of Mary Washington, USANegotiating the Power of Art: Tyree Guyton and Detroit Communities - Bradley L. Taylor, University of Michigan, USALearning to Share Knowledge: Collaborative Projects In Taiwan - Marzia Varutti, University of Leicester, UKCommunity Engagement, Curatorial Practice and Museum Ethos in Alberta Canada - Bryony Onciul, Newcastle University, UKCo-Curating with Teenagers at the Horniman Museum - Wayne Modest, Tropenmuseum, the NetherlandsPart Two: Sharing Authority?Museums, Migrant Communities and Intercultural Dialogue in Italy - Serena Iervolino, University of Leicester, UKCommunity Consultation and the Redevelopment of Manchester Museum's Ancient Egypt Galleries - Karen Exell, University College London, Qatar, Doha'Shared Authority': Collaboration, Curatorial Voice and Exhibition Design in Canberra Australia - Mary Hutchison, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, AustraliaOne Voice to Many Voices?: Displaying Polyvocality in an Art Gallery - Rhiannon Mason, Chris Whitehead, and Helen Graham, Newcastle University, UKA Question of Trust: Addressing Historical Injustices with Romani-people - Åshild Andrea Brekke, Arts Council, Norway Part Three: Audiences and Social Justice? Audience Experiences?Creolising the Museum: Humour, Art and Young Audiences - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UKMuseums and Civic Engagement: Children Making a Difference - Elizabeth Wood, Indiana University-Purdue University, USACommunity Consultation in the Museum: The 2007 Bicentenary of Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade - Kalliopi Fouseki, University College London, UK and Laurajane Smith. Australian National University, AustraliaInterpreting the Shared Past Within the World Heritage Site of Göreme, Cappadocia Turkey - Elizabeth Carnegie, University of Sheffield, UK and Hazel Tucker, University of Otago, New ZealandTestimony, Memory and Art at the Jewish Holocaust Museum Melbourne Australia - Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University, AustraliaAfterword - A View from the Bridge in Conversation with Susan Pearce - Kirstin James, University of Leicester, UK, Petrina Foti, University of Leicester, UK and the EditorsIndex