Museum politics : power plays at the exhibition / Timothy W. Luke.

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2002], ©2002.

xxvi, 265 pages ; 23 cm

Introduction : museum exhibitions as power plays -- Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars -- Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum -- Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia -- Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art -- Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History -- The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life -- Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum -- Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum -- Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation -- Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum -- Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-258) and index.