Front Cover -- Towards the Museum of the Future -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Photographic acknowledgements -- Introduction: Roger Miles -- Part 1: New worlds -- 1. An architect's view of recent developments in European museums: Ian Ritchie -- 2. Some general thoughts on corporate museum identity: the case of the Villa Arson -- Nice Ruedi Baur, Pippo Lionni and Christian Bernard -- 3. Aims, strengths and weaknesses of the European science centre movement: Melanie Quin -- 4. The debate on heritage reviewed: Robert Lumley -- Part 2: New services -- 5. Visitor studies in Germany: methods and examples: Bernhard Graf -- 6. Families in museums: Paulette M. McManus -- 7. Travelling exhibits: the Swedish experience: Jan Hjorth -- 8. 'Why are you playing at washing up again?' Some reasons and methods for developing exhibitions for children: Gillian Thomas -- 9. Museum education: past, present and future: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- Part 3: New analyses -- 10. The rhetoric of display: Peter Vergo -- 11. The medium is the museum: on objects and logics in times and spaces: Roger Silverstone -- 12. Some processes particular to the scientific exhibition: Bernard Schiele and Louise Boucher -- 13. The identity crisis of natural history museums at the end of the twentieth century: Pere Alberch -- Index.