Exhibition experiments / edited by Sharon Macdonald and Paul Basu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on contributors -- Introduction : experiments in exhibition, ethnography, art, and science / Paul Basu and Sharon Macdonald -- Legibility and affect : museums as new media / Michelle Henning -- The labyrinthine aesthetic in contemporary museum design / Paul Basu -- Exhibition as film / Mieke Bal -- Experimenting with representation : iconoclash and making things public / Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour -- Walking on a storyboard, performing shared incompetence : exhibiting ´science´ in the public realm : xperiment! / Bernd Kraeftner, Judith Kroell, and Isabel Warner -- From capital to enthusiasm : an exhibitionary practice / Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska -- The politics of display : Ann-Sofi Sidén´s Warte mal!, art history and social documentary : a seminar with Laura Bea, Clare Carolin, Griselda Pollock, and Ann-Sofi Sidén / edited by Clare Carolin and Cathy Haynes -- From exhibiting to installing ethnography : experiments at the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, 1999-2005 / Nuno Porto -- Raising specters : welcoming hybrid phantoms at Chicago´s Museum of Science and Industry / Anne Lorimer -- Exposing expo : exhibition entrepreneurship and experimental reflexivity in late modernity / Alexa Färber.

This is an exploration of examples of museum experimentalism in light of cutting-edge museum theory. The text draws on a range of global and topical examples, including museum experimentation, exhibitionary forms, the fate of conventional notions of ´object´ and ´representation´, and the impact of these changes.