The thing about museums

Preface / Sandra Dudley -- 1. Introduction: museums and things / Sandra Dudley -- Part I: Objects and their creation in the museum. Introduction / Jennifer Walklate -- 2. Romancing the Stones: earth science objects as material culture / Hannah-Lee Chalk -- 3. What do we know about what we know? The museum 'register' as museum object / Geoffrey N. Swinney -- 4. Emblematic museum objects of national significance: in search of their multiple meanings and values / Marlen Mouliou and Despina Kalessopoulou -- 5. Musealization processes in the realm of art / Maria Lucia de Niemeyer Matheus Loureiro -- 6. Photography - museum: on posing, imageness, and the punctum / Klaus Wehner -- Part II: Visitors' engagements with museum objects. Introduction / Jennifer Binnie -- 7. Things and theories: the unstable presence of exhibited objects / Chris Dorsett -- 8. Inexperienced museum visitors and how they negotiate contemporary art. A comparative study of two visitor-driven visual art presentations / Marijke Van Eeckhaut -- 9. Illuminating narratives: period rooms and tableaux vivants / Michael Katzberg -- 10. Magic objects/modern objects: heroes' house museums / Linda Young -- 11. 'Do not touch' -