1. "Beauty and art, history and fame and power" : on entering the Louvre
2. Art and power : time travel in the museum
3. Museum skeptics
4. Picturing museum skepticism
5. Art museum narratives
6. Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum
7. Ernest Fenollosa's history of Asian art
8. Albert Barnes's foundation and the place of modernist art within the art museum
9. The display of absolutely contemporary art in the J. Paul Getty museum
10. The end of the modern public art museum : a tale of two cities
Conclusion : What the public art museum might become
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Museum skepticism : a history of the display of art in public galleries by David Carrier. ISBN 0822336944. Published by Duke University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
