Museums, ethics and cultural heritage

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This volume provides an unparalleled exploration of ethics and museum practice, considering the controversies and debates which surround key issues such as provenance, ownership, cultural identity, environmental sustainability and social engagement. Using a variety of case studies which reflect the internal realities and daily activities of museums as they address these issues, from exhibition content and museum research to education, accountability and new technologies, Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage enables a greater understanding of the role of museums as complex and multifaceted institutions of cultural production, identity-formation and heritage preservation. --

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1. ICOM turns 70: ethics and the value creation role of museums / Hans-Martin Hinz. -- 2. The role of museums in the twenty-first century / Anne Catherine Robert-Hauglustaine. -- 3. The work of the ICOM Ethics Committee / Martin R. Schärer. -- 4. Charting the ethics landscape for museums in a changing world / Bernice L Murphy. -- 5. The ICOM's ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums: background and objectives / Geoffrey Lewis. -- 6. Ethical issues and standards for natural history museums / Eric Dorfman. -- 7. Reversing the de-realisation of natural and social phenomena: ethical issues for museums in a multidisciplinary context / Michel Van-Praët. -- 8. Dances with intellectual property: museums, monetization and digitization / Rina Elster Pantalony. -- 9. UNESCO's actions and international standards concerning museums / Mechtild Rossler and Nao Hayashi. -- 10. The UNESCO Recommendation on the Protection and Promotion of Museums and Collections, their Diversity and Role in Society / François Mairesse. -- 11. Protecting cultural heritage at risk: an international public service mission for ICOM / France Desmarais. -- 12. Stolen and illegally exported artifacts in collections: key issues for museums within a legal framework / Marilyn Phelan. -- 13. Advice and support in the recovery of lost art: The German Lost Art Foundation (Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste) / Michael M. Franz. -- 14. Unchanging ethics in a changing world / Gary Edson. -- 15. Remodelling shared heritage and collection access: The Museum Island Constellation and Humboldt Forum Project in Berlin / Herman Parzinger. -- 16. A museum triangle: ethics, standards of care and the pleasure of perception / Dorota Folga-Januszewska. -- 17. The Chinese museum: transformation and change through ethics construction / An Laishun. -- 18. Ethics, museology and professional training in Japan / Eiji Mizushima. -- 19. Advocating for international collaborations: WWII-era provenance research in museums / Jane Milosch. -- 20. 'Definitely stolen?': why there is no alternative to provenance research in archaeological museums / Markus Hilgert. -- 21. Deaccessioning: some reflections / François Mairesse. -- 22. From Apollo into the anthropocene: the odyssey of nature and science museums in an external responsibility context / Emlyn Koster. -- 23. Ethics in a changing social landscape: community engagement and public participation in museums / Sally Yerkovitch. -- 24. Conservation: how ethics work in practice / Stephanie de Roemer. -- 25. Exhibiting contentious and difficult histories: ethics, emotions and reflexivity / Sharon Macdonald. -- 26. Native America in the twenty-first century: journeys in cultural governance and museum interpretation / W. Richard West, Jr. -- 27. Using the past to forge a future: challenges of uniting a nation against skeletal odds / Bongani Ndhlovu. -- 28. Afro-descendent heritage and its unacknowledged legacy in Latin American museum representation / Monica Gorgas. -- 29. In search of the inclusive museum / Amareswar Galla. -- 30. The Lombroso Museum in Turin: a reflection on the exhibition and scientific study of human remains / Alberto Garlandini and Stefano Montaldo. -- 31. The Auschwitz-Birkenow State Museum and an artist's claim to portraits of Holocaust victims made in Auschwitz for Josef Mengele / Vojtěch Blodig. -- 32. The mask of Ka-nefer-nefer: the complex history of an Egyptian object / Regine Schulz. -- 33. Ethics versus law: the restitution of The Miracle of St Anthony by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo / Aedín Mac Devitt. -- 34. Ethics in action: situational scenarios turning the keys to the Code of Ethics / Eva Maehre Lauritzen. -- Appendix I: ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums. -- Appendix II: ICOM Code of Ethics for Natural History Museums. -- Appendix III: CIMAM: Principles of deaccession. -- Appendix IV: UNESCO recommendation concerning the protection and promotion of museums and collections, their diversity and their role in society.