I am pleased to announce (a little belatedly) that the Latest issue of museum & society is now available online at http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/museumsociety.html 

Special issue: Constructing Nature Behind the Glass edited by Samuel J. M.M. Alberti and Christopher Whitehead
contents

Constructing nature behind the glass
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti

Repair work: surfacing the geographies of dead animals
Merle Patchett and Kate Foster

The matter and meaning of museum taxidermy
Rachel Poliquin

Nature dissected, or dissection naturalized? The case of John Hunter’s museum
Simon Chaplin

From natural history to science: display and the transformation of American museums of science and nature
Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain

Rethinking the value of biological specimens: laboratories, museums and the Barcoding of Life Initiative
Rebecca Ellis
Book Reviews

Ken Arnold, Cabinets for the Curious: Looking Back at Early English Museums
Paula Findlen

Conal McCarthy, Exhibiting Māori: A History of Colonial Cultures of Display
Julia Adams

To aid your reading, you can now find a full list of all volumes and articles by clicking the link in the left-hand margin of http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/museumsociety.html .

Best wishes,
 
Jim Roberts
Production Editor
museum & society
 
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University of Leicester
Department of Museum Studies
 
http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies
 
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