Ponencias realizadas en una serie de encuentros sobre museos y procesos de globalización llevados a cabo durante los últimos seis años por la Fundación Rockefeller en New York, Buenos Aires, Ciudad del Cabo, y Bellagio, Italia.

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Contenido: Exhibitionary Complexes -- Tactical Museologies -- Remapping the Museum.

Resumen: Museum Frictions is the third volume in a bestselling series on culture, society, and museums. It´s a lavishly illustrated examination of the significant and varied effects of the increasingly globalized world on contemporary museum, heritage, and exhibition practise. The contributors - scholars, artists, and curators- present case studies drawn from Africa, Australia, North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Together they offer a multifaceted analysis of the complex roles that national and community museums, museums of art and history, monuments, heritage sites, and theme parks play in creating public cultures -- contraportada.