Museum Worlds – Advances in research é uma nova revista multidisciplinar na área da museologia. É uma publicação em inglês, anual e com arbitragem científica, que procura dar conta das grandes tendências no mundo dos museus, tanto a partir do mundo académico como em termos de práticas museológicas. É publicada através de Berghahn Journals e, portanto, de acesso condicionado, o que é um aspecto desfavorável para países como Portugal que geralmente investem pouco no acesso pago às bases de dados científicas.

As editoras principais, Sandra Dudley (Universidade de Leicester) e Kylie Message (Universidade Nacional Australiana) têm já provas dadas no âmbito da produção científica nesta área. É de notar que o comité editorial, que conta também com nomes conhecidos (Mary Bouquet, Lynne Teather, Joshua A. Bell, Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Ciraj Rassool), inclui uma participação portuguesa, Alice Semedo, Professora da Universidade do Porto responsável pelo curso de museologia. Mais informação sobre a revista aqui: http://www.journals.berghahnbooks.com/air-mw/

O primeiro número acaba de ser lançado e conta com contribuições de peso como se pode constatar em baixo. O próximo número tem já uma call aberta até 1 de Novembro de 2013. O segundo número deverá ser lançado no Verão de 2014.

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EDITORIAL

Sandra Dudley and Kylie Message

ARTICLES

Critical Museology: A Manifesto
Anthony Shelton

The End of the Beginning: Normativity in the Postdigital Museum
Ross Parry

National Museums, Globalization, and Postnationalism: Imagining a Cosmopolitan Museology
Rhiannon Mason

Colonial Visions: Egyptian Antiquities and Contested Histories in the Cairo Museum
Christina Riggs

Heritage: Renovation, Relocation, Remediation, and Repositioning Museums
Mary Bouquet

Piazzas or Stadiums: Toward an Alternative Account of Museums in Cultural and Urban Development
Lisanne Gibson

Exhibitions as Research: Displaying the Technologies That Make Bodies Visible
Anita Herle

‘Ceremonies of Renewal’: Visits, Relationships, and Healing in the Museum Space
Laura Peers

Cultural Collisions in Socially Engaged Artistic Practice: ‘Temple Swapping’ and Hybridity in the Work of Theaster Gates
Janet Marstine

CONVERSATION

Museums in a Global World: A Conversation on Museums, Heritage, Nation, and Diversity in a Transnational Age
Convened by Conal McCarthy and edited by Jennifer Walklate

REPORTS

After the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge Workshop Report
Joshua A. Bell, Kimberly Christen, and Mark Turin

International Seminar on Museums and the Changing Cultural Landscape, Ladakh Conference and Project Report
Manvi Seth

EXHIBITION REVIEWS

Steampunk, Bradford Industrial Museum, UK
Jeanette Atkinson

Framing India: Paris-Delhi-Bombay . . ., Centre Pompidou, Paris
Tracy Buck

E Tū Ake: Māori Standing Strong/Māori: leurs trésors sont une âme, Te Papa, Wellington, and Musée du quai Branly, Paris
Simon Jean

The New American Art Galleries, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Alan Wallach

Scott’s Last Expedition, The Natural History Museum, London
Peter Davis

Left-Wing Art, Right-Wing Art, Pure Art: New National Art, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Ewa Klekot

Focus on Strangers: Photo Albums of World War II
Philipp Schorch

A Museum That Is Not: A Fanatical Narrative of What a Museum Can Be
Wing Yan Vivian Ting

21st Century: Art in the First Decade, QAGOMA, Brisbane
Caroline Turner and Glen St John Barclay

James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
Jennifer Wagelie

Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands, QAGOMA, Brisbane, and Awakening: Stories from the Torres Strait, Queensland Museum, Brisbane
Graeme Were

BOOK REVIEWS

Buszek, Maria Elena, ed., Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art
Fiona P. McDonald

Hansen, Tone, ed., (Re)Staging the Art Museum
Fiona P. McDonald

Phillips, Ruth B., Museum Pieces: Towards the Indigenization of Canadian Museums
Conal McCarthy

Sandell, Richard, and Eithne Nightingale, eds., Museums, Equality and Social Justice
Shelley Ruth Butler