University of Leicester, Department of Museum Studies' online journal,
museum and society, was launched in March 2003 as an independent peer
reviewed journal which brings together new writing by academics and museum
professionals on the subject of museums. It aims to be both international
in scope and at the cutting edge of empirical and theoretical research on
museums. museum and society is edited by Gordon Fyfe (Keele University),
Kevin Hetherington (Lancaster University) and Susan Pearce (University of
Leicester).

museum and society is an interdisciplinary journal with a wide ranging
interest in all issues associated with museums and other places of public
culture concerned with collecting, exhibiting and display. The journal is a
successor to the series New Research in Museum Studies which was published
by Athlone Press from 1990 to 1997.

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Issue 1(2) of museum and society is now online at
http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/m&s/Issue_1,2.html.

Contents: of Issue 1(2)

The art of space in the space of art: Edinburgh and its Gallery, 1780-
1860
Nick Prior

Local authority museums and the modernizing government agenda in
England
Ian Lawley

Performance and performativity at heritage sites
Gaynor Bagnall

Accountability and disposal: visual impairment and the museum
Kevin Hetherington

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Issue 1(1) is still available at http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/m&s/index.html

contents

Museums, National, Postnational and Transcultural Identities
Sharon Macdonald

The Discipline of Pleasure; or, How Art history Looks at the Art
Museum
Colin Trodd

Heritage, Governance and Ownership: a Case-study from Wales
Bella Dicks

Social Inclusion, the Museum and the Dynamics of Sectoral Change
Richard Sandell

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The next issue, volume 1 (3) will appear in November 2003

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Since our launch in March, subscriptions (free) have grown to well over 500
and we anticipate that the number will grow further in the coming months.

We aim to develop the contents of the journal to include reviews, news
items and so on. Our web page http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/m&s/index.html
provides further guidance on the sorts of contributions we are inviting and
on how material should be submitted to the editors.

Jim Roberts
Webmaster

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