Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Museum Exhibitions as Power Plays -- ONE: Politics at the Exhibition: Aesthetics, History, and Nationality in the Culture Wars -- TWO: Nuclear Reactions: The (Re)Presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum -- THREE: Memorializing Mass Murder: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- FOUR: Signs of Empire/Empires of Sign: Daimyo Culture in the District of Columbia -- FIVE: Inventing the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and Native American Art -- SIX: Museum Pieces: Politics and Knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History -- SEVEN: The Missouri Botanical Garden: Sharing Knowledge about Plants to Preserve and Enrich Life -- EIGHT: Southwestern Environments as Hyperreality: The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum -- NINE: Superpower Aircraft and Aircrafting Superpower: The Pima Air and Space Museum -- TEN: Strange Attractor: The Tech Museum of Innovation -- ELEVEN: Channeling the News Stream: The Full Press of a Free Press at the Newseum -- Conclusion: Piecing Together Knowledge and Pulling Apart Power at the Museum -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.