ABSTRACT
The idea of the museum as a therapeutic agent with the potential to contribute to the health and wellbeing of communities has attracted increasing interest amongst both practitioners and researchers in recent years (Silverman 2002; Dodd 2002). At the same time, however, experimental avenues of practice exploring the museum's therapeutic potential are generating new ethical challenges and demanding from practitioners sets of skills and ways of working that are different from those traditionally valued in museum work (Kavanagh 2002; Silverman 2002).
