Forward
Preface
By: Kate Quinn
Epigraph
Part One: What is a Museum?
Chapter 1: Overview
By Alejandra Peña Gutierrez
Chapter 2: Public Trust at American Museums Today: Observations and Priorities
By Thomas Loughman
Chapter 3: How Do We Center People in Museums?
By Elaine Heumann Gurian
Chapter 4: Museums Must Be More: : ICOM's Definition of "Museum" Needs to Take into Account How the Field Has Changed and Where It Is Heading
By W. Richard West
Part Two: Safe Places or Social Spaces?
Chapter 5: Safe Places or Social Spaces?
By Diana Pardue
Chapter 6: On Museums and Place: Alejandra Peña Gutierrez with Andrés Roldán
Chapter 7: Yes, And: Museums as Safe Places AND Social Spaces
By Linda Norris
Chapter 8 :Crossing Museum Boundaries: From Gallery Space to Protest Place
By Ihor Poshyvailo
Part Three: The Function of Collecting
Chapter 9: The Functions of Collecting: An Inquiry
By William Eiland
Chapter 10: KonMari in the Museum: Collecting Front, Center and Back
By Danielle Kuijten
Chapter 11: On Museums and Collecting: Kate Quinn with Anne Pasternak
Chapter 12: Beyond Colonial Collecting
By Tukufu Zuberi
Part Four: The Whiteness of Museums
Chapter 13: The Whiteness of Museums
By Lyndel King
Chapter 14: What Makes a Museum, A Museum: From the African Experience
By George Okello Abungu
Chapter 15:The Work is Never Done: Reckoning and Reparation in Museums
By Christopher Bedford
Chapter 16: "Dysmantaling" a Museum
By Christina Woods
Part Five: Museums as Influencers
Chapter 17 :Museums as Influencers
By Diana Pardue
Chapter 18: To Be of Influence Starts with Being Open to Influence
By Kelly McKinley
Chapter 19: Can a New Definition Convert Museums into Influencers?
By Lauran Bonilla-Merchav and Bruno Burlon Soares
Chapter 20: Redefine the Museum: Making a Case for Embracing Our Inner Agent of Change
By Lisa Sasaki
Part Six: Crisis: Environmentalism, Sustainability and Museums
Chapter 21: Beyond Crisis: Museums and Sustainability
By William Eiland
Chapter 22: Imagining Another World at the National Public Housing Museum
By Lisa Yun Lee
Chapter 23: Weaving New Narratives: Museums and Sustainable Futures
By Morien Rees
Chapter 24: The Museum's Role in the Global Effort to Create a World Where Everyone and Everything Can Thrive
By Sarah Sutton
Part Seven: What Now/Now What?
Chapter 25: Seizing the Moment: The Evolution of the 21st- Century Museum
By Lonnie G. Bunch, III
Index
About the Contributors
About ICOM-US
About the Editors