Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Notes on contributors -- Editorial introduction -- Part One -- 1 Objects, belief and power in mid-Victorian England: The origins of the Victoria and Albert Museum -- 2 The discursive object -- 3 In the lair of the monkey: notes towards a post-modernist museography -- 4 Object lessons in the museum medium -- 5 Objects as meaning -- or narrating the past -- 6 Methodological museology -- or, towards a theory of museum practice -- 7 Cultural empowerment and museums: opening up anthropology through collaboration -- 8 Knowing objects through an alternative learning system -- Part Two -- Reviews -- Can futurism find a place in the Museum of the River? -- The Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago -- Marketing the arts: foundation for success -- The film Art of Darkness -- Museums 2,000 -- Co-operation and curatorship: the Swedish-African Museums Programme -- Louis Auchincloss The Golden Calves, 1988 -- Daniel Miller Material Culture and Mass Consumption 1988 -- Arnold Tyonbee and Daisaker Ikeda Choose Life: A Dialogue 1989 -- Call for Papers for forthcoming volumes -- Editorial policy -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.