Acknowledgments

 Experiments in culture: An introduction

Reforming nationhood
The free market and biculturalism at Te Papa

Museums of New Caledonia
The old, the new and the balance of the two

Contested sites of identity and the cult of the new
The Centre Culturel Tjibaou and the constitution of culture in New Caledonia

National Museum of Australia

Pluralism and exhibition practice at the National Museum of Australia

Melbourne Museum

Civic laboratories
Museums, cultural objecthood and the governance of the social

Museums as cultural guardians

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

There’s so much in looking at those barks
Dja Dja Wurrung etchings 2004–05

Gab Titui Cultural Centre

The museum as cultural agent
The Vanuatu Cultural Centre extension worker program

Tuning the museum
The harmonics of official culture

Bunjilaka

Very special treatment

Hiroshima mon amour
Representation and violence in new museums of the Pacific

The Auckland War Memorial Museum, Tamaki Paenga Hira

The National Museum of Australia as danse macabre
Baroque allegories of the popular

The Museum of Sydney

How style came to matter
Do we need to move beyond the politics of representation?

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Spirit house