juseums in a Troubled WorldList of figures ix Acknowledgements | Foreword xiii ELAINE HEUMANN GURIAN Prologue 1 Ti , The Willow Lakers 3 The curator _5 ua isu The Chief Executive Officer 9 i 1 Muse ad irrelevance. 13, Troubling questions 13 Sobering assumptions 15 th = 2A woubled world 26 The absence of stewardship 26 A troubled world 28 Our lethal footprint 32 Avirtual impression 34 Kilts latives = 2 Liste eretecesteanis ated I a Diagnosing the assault om stewardship $3Contents Copyrighted Material 3___ It’s a jungle in here: Museums and their self-inflicted challenges 57 The three agendas 57 The fallacy of authoritative neutrality 59 The lone museum director 62 Management myopia _ 66 The consequences of hierarchy: Learning from hunters 71 Museum exhibitions: Ploughing old ground 78 Collections: Museums as consumption 83 4 Debunking the marketplace 94 Corporatism has arrived 94 Back to the beginning 95 A clash of values 99 The anatomry of failure 102 Courting the corporatists: A cautionary tale 115 Business literacy 118 Methods aren't values 118 5 Searching for resilience 121 Resilious i 11 Why resilience? 141 Resili 143 Assuming responsibility 145Contents Copyrighted Material 3__ It’s a jungle in here: Museums and their self-inflicted challenges 57 The three agendas 57 The fallacy of authoritative neutrality 59 The lone museum director 62 Management myopia _66 The consequences of hierarchy: Learning from hunters 71 Museum exhibitions: Ploughing old ground 78 Collections: Museums as consumption _ 83 4 Debunking the marketplace 94 Corporatism has arrived 94 Back to the beginning 95 A clash of values 99 The anatomy of failure 102 Courting the corporatists: A cautionary tale 115 Business literacy 118 Methods aren't values 1185__ Searching for resilience 121 Resilient i 2 Why resilience? 141 Resili | 3 Assuming responsibility _145 corte ening : 147 Mindfulness 147 Museum chatter 148 Thinking orthogonally 150 Museum mindfulness 153 Museums for a troubled world 164 7 Museums: Stewards or spectators? 169 A brief retrospective 169 The consequences of ignoring the present 173 R ~ denial i - 7 In praise of museums 183 Notes. 186 Index 204