Museum Materialities
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Foreword 1. Introduction: Materiality And Matter Reality In The Museum Part I: Objects 2. The Eyes Have It: Eye Movements And The Debatable Differences Between Original Objects And Reproductions 3. Artefacts Re-Made 4. Touching The Buddha: An Extraordinary Object Demanding A Response 5. Photographs And History: Emotion And Materiality 6. Virginia Woolf's Glasses: Material Encounters In The Literary/Artistic House Museum 7. Using Objects To Remember The Dead And Affect The Living: The Case Of A Miniature Model Of Treblinka Part II: Engagements 8. Contemporary Sculpture: An Immaterial Practice 9. When Ethnographies Enter Art Galleries: Viewing Violence And Inhabiting Other's Beauty 10. Visitors, Bodies And Forms In Australian Journeys 11. Not Just Looking: Embodiment And Encounter In The Contemporary Art Museum 12. Playing With Museum Encounters: Art, Materiality And The Aesthetics Of Engagement 13. Perceptions Of Edinburgh: Weight, Vision And Movement In The Northern City Exhibition Part III : Interpretations 14. 'A Thing Is A Thing. Why Bother?' On A Sensory Interpretive Project Involving Chinese Ceramics 15. Churchill Re-Imagined: History, Memory And The Senses And The Modern Museum 16. Children Feeling Africa In The Museum 17. Beyond Display, Making Meaning 18. Beyond Words: Interpreting The Unspeakable? Afterword

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