Contents -- Foreword / Paul Marincola, Executive Director, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage -- Introduction / Bill Adair, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski -- Virtually Breaking Down: Authority and the Web -- Thought Piece: Participatory Design and the Future of Museums / Nina Simon -- Case Study: Where Are the Best Stories? Where Is My Story? - Participation and Curation in a New Media Age / Steve Zeitlin -- Conversation: Online Dialogue and Cultural Practice: A Conversation / Matthew Fisher and Bill Adair -- Thought Piece: Get Real! : The Role of Objects in the Digital Age / Matthew MacArthur -- Throwing Open the Doors: Communities as Curators -- Thought Piece: Whose Questions, Whose Conversations? / Kathleen McLean -- Conversation: The "Dialogic Museum" Revisted: A Collaborative Reflection / John Kuo Wei Tchen and Liz Ševčenko -- Case Study: Moving Pictures: Minnesota's Most Rewarding Film Competition -- Introduction / Randal Dietrich -- "Remembering Grandma Lucy" / Tom Drube -- "From Book to Film - The Artifacts of Wartime History" / Matt Ehling -- Case Study/Conversation : Community as Curator: A Case Study at the Brooklyn Historical Society / Deborah Schwartz and Bill Adair -- Hearing Voices: Sharing Authority through Oral History -- Thought Piece: From a "A Shared Authority" to Digital Kitchen, and Back / Michael Frisch -- Case Study: Make Yourself at Home - Welcoming Voices in 'Open House: If These Walls Could Talk' / Benjamin Filene -- Case Study: The Black Bottom: Making Community-Based Performance in West Philadelphia / Billy Yalowitz and Graphic art by Pete Stathis -- Case Study: Listening Intently: Can StoryCorps Teach Museums How to Win the Hearts of New Audiences? / Benjamin Filene -- The Question of Evaluation: Understanding the Vistors' Response.

Public Curation: From Trend to Research-Based Practice / Tom Satwicz and Kris Morrissey -- Constructing Perspectives: Artists and Historical Authority -- Thought Piece: Peering Behind the Curtain: Artists and Questioning Historical Authority / Melissa Rachleff -- Conversation: 'Minning the Museum' Revisited: A Conversation / Fred Wilson, Paula Marincola, and Marjorie Schwarzer -- Case Study: "The Fever Dream of the Amateur Historian" : Ben Katchor's 'The Rosenbach Company: A Tragicomedy' / Melissa Rachleff -- Case Study: Embracing the Unexpected: Artists in Residence at the American Philosophical Society Museum / Laura Koloski -- Art Piece: Sanford and Sun / Otabenga Jones -- Case Study: A London Travelogue: Visiting Dennis Severs' House / Mary Teeling -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index.