Museum Politics : Power Plays at the Exhibition

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Museum Exhibitions as Power Plays xiii Politics at the Exhibition: Aesthetics, History, and Nationality in the Culture Wars 1(18) Nuclear Reactions: The (Re) Presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum 19(18) Memorializing Mass Murder: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 37(28) Signs of Empire/Empires of Sign: Daimyo Culture in the District of Columbia 65(17) Inventing the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and Native American Art 82(18) Museum Pieces: Politics and Knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History 100(24) The Missouri Botanical Garden: Sharing Knowledge about Plants to Preserve and Enrich Life 124(22) Southwestern Environments as Hyperreality: The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum 146(19) Superpower Aircraft and Aircrafting Superpower: The Pima Air and Space Museum 165(21) Strange Attractor: The Tech Museum of Innovation 186(17) Channeling the News Stream: The Full Press of a Free Press at the Newseum 203(15) Conclusion: Piecing Together Knowledge and Pulling Apart Power at the Museum 218(13) Notes 231(28) Index 259