ABSTRACT
The museum is a flexible institution that changes over time. A novel orientation and conception of the museum has been crystallizing as the collaborative turn in museum and heritage practice sediments more thoroughly into institutional projects and policies: the interrogative museum. Museum-community relations and collaborations are at the core of the case studies presented in the book. They include exhibition projects, creation of community-based institutions, knowledge sharing projects that bring material from collections back to source communities and create new documentation and knowledge, and cross-institution and cross-community partnerships. The collaborations span institutions of diverse types and scales as well as scholarly fields: museums of natural history, ethnography, history, and art; heritage and cultural centers; national, local, and community museums; university museums; archives; schools; and other community political and cultural institutions.
