1. Experiments in culture: An introduction — Chris Healy and Andrea Witcomb
2. Reforming nationhood: The free market and biculturalism at Te Papa — Paul Williams
3. Museums of New Caledonia: The old, the new and the balance of the two — Marianne Tissandier
5. National Museum of Australia — Linda Young
7. Melbourne Museum — Ian McShane
8. Civic laboratories: Museums, cultural objecthood and the governance of the social — Tony Bennett
9. Museums as cultural guardians — Deidre Brown
10. The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa — Huhana Smith
12. Gab Titui Cultural Centre — Leilani Bin-Juda
14. Tuning the museum: The harmonics of official culture — Ian Wedde
15. Bunjilaka — Moira G. Simpson
16. Very special treatment — Chris Healy
17. Hiroshima mon amour: Representation and violence in new museums of the Pacific — Diane Losche
18. The Auckland War Memorial Museum, Tamaki Paenga Hira — Elizabeth Rankin
20. The Museum of Sydney — Kate Gregory
22. The Australian Centre for the Moving Image — Natalia Radywyl