The latest issue of Museum & Society, July 2016: Volume 14, No.2 is now available online at

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/volumes/volume-14-2016#14-2

 

 

Contents

 

Guest-edited Section

(Re)Imagining, (Re)Interpreting and (Re)Valuing for Diverse Audiences
Editors: Dr Annette B. Fromm, Dr Viv Golding

 

Introduction
Annette Fromm, Viv Golding

 

Curating Action: Rethinking Ethnographic Collections and the Role/Place of Performing Arts in the Museum
Hélène Bernier, Mathieu Viau-Courville

 

Desiring the past and reimagining the present: contemporary collecting in Qatar
Karen Exell

 

New Futures for Old Collections - Contemporary Collecting and Community Involvement at the National Museum of Denmark
Mille Gabriel
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Open Section

 

Toy Story: Childhood versus Children in Toy Museums
Anne Jodon Cole, Eva Petersson Brooks

 

Museums, exchanges, and their contribution to Joseph Nye’s concept of ‘soft power’
Leanne Hoogwaerts

 

From museum to memory institution: the politics of European culture online
Elizabeth Stainforth

 

To Survive Ravensbrück: Considerations on Museum Pedagogy and the Passing on of Holocaust Remembrance
Katrine Tinning
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Book Reviews

 

Rose, J. 2016. Interpreting difficult history at museums and historic sites, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York and London, paperback, £23.95, pp215
Ceri Jones

 

Ingrid Mida and Alexandra Kim, The Dress Detective: A Practical Guide to Object-Based Research in Fashion. London: Bloomsbury, 2015, paperback £24.99, pp. 224.
Julia Petrov