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This journal will explore the history of museums, the museum profession, and the sociocultural context in which museums developed and operate. The term “museum” will be interpreted to include not only a broad range of museum types, but also related cultural institutions, such as aquaria, zoos, botanical gardens, arboreta, historical societies and sites, architectural sites, archives, and planetariums. A variety of scholarly approaches, such as analytical, narrative, historical, cultural, social, quantitative, and intellectual, are anticipated. Topical submissions will be expected to include cultural and social histories that evaluate the impact of museums in the context of a particular time period; intellectual histories that emphasize museum philosophy; histories of museum-related professions; histories of museum exhibits and educational programs; histories of development, management, and use of collections; architectural histories; analyses of the contributions of significant museum figures; issues of professionalization of the field; comparative histories; critical institutional histories.
OUTLOOK
The Empty Forest Syndrome - MARY ANNE ANDREI
FEATURE ARTICLES
"Our Native Allies": The Denver Art Museum's WWII Outreach Exhibits - NANCY J. PAREZO
John C. Ewers and the Problem of Cultural History: Displaying American Indians at the Smithsonian in the Fifties - WILLIAM S. WALKER
The Idea of a National Museum for Autralia - JAMES M. GORE
The Early History of Docents in American Art Museums: 1890-1930 - KATHERINE B. GILTINAN
Natural History Discourse and Collections: The Rose of Collectors in the Southeartern Colonies of North America - CHARLOTTE M. PORTER
BOOK REVIEWS
A World Inside: A 150-year History of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, by Christy Vodden and Ian Dyck Reviewed by SUZANNE ZELLER
The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian, by Heather P. Ewing Reviewed by PAMELA M. HENSON
Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange by Amiria J. M. Henare Reviewed by IRA JACKNIS
ARCHIVE
Blaschka glass model of a toothed-fin squid, Grant Museum of Zoology, University Collge London
About the Editors: Hugh H. Genoways is
Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska State Museum, former editor of
the journals Collections and
Current Mammology, and past president of American Society of Mammologists. Mary
Anne Andrei is Lecturer, Department
of History, University of Virginia and a specialist in the history of science.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Hugh H. Genoways, Co-editor
University of Nebraska State Museum
Mary Anne Andrei, Co-editor and Editor for Book Reviews
Department of History, University of Virginia Jeffrey Abt, Department of Art and Art History, Wayne State University,
Samuel Alberti, Centre for Museology, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Tony Bennett, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change, The Open University,
United Kingdom
Pratipal Bhatia, Department of History, National University of Singapore, Richard W. Burkhardt, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beverley J. Butler, Institute of Archaeology , University College London, United Kingdom
Fiona Cameron, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Peter Davis, International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University,
United Kingdom
Kokunre A. Eghafona, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Benin, Nigeria
Claire J. Farago, Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado at Boulder Paul L. Farber, Department of History, Oregon State University,
Don D. Fowler, Anthropology Department, University of Nevada Reno
Gordon J. Fyfe, School of Criminology, Education, Sociology & Social Work, Keele University,
United Kingdom
Linden Gillbank, History and Philosophy of Science Department , University of Melbourne, Australia
Pamela M. Henson, Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Rhonda Hinther, Western Canadian History, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Canada
Carol Kammen, Cornell University,
Simon Knell, Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Department of History of Science/Technology, University of Minnesota,
Phyllis Leffler, Institute for Public History, University of Virginia,
Maria Margaret Lopes, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil
Henry Nicholls, Editor, ENDEA VOUR , Elsevier, United Kingdom
Giuseppe Olmi, Department of Historical Disciplines, University of Bologna, Italy
Oya Pancaroglu, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Bilkent University, Turkey
Nancy J. Parezo, American Indian Studies, University of Arizona,
Amandine Péquignot, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France
Charlotte M. Porter, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida,
Donald Preziosi, Department of the History of Art, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Karen A. Rader, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Debra A. Reid, Department of History , Eastern Illinois University
E. Bruce Robertson, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of California,
Marjorie Schwarzer, Museum Studies Program, John F. Kennedy University, Anne Secord, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Department of Zoology and Department of History, University of Florida,
Harro Strehlow, Berlin, Germany
J. Lynne Teather, Museum Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
Anke te Heesen, Museum, Universität Tübingen , Germany
Christopher M. Whitehead, International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies,
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
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