Part One: Introductory Chapter 1 Curating the Ancient Middle East Geoff Emberling and Lucas Petit Chapter 2 Museum Displays and the Creation of the Ancient Middle East: A View from the Ashmolean and the British Museum Paul Collins Chapter 3 Ancient "Art" in the White Cube? Or How Contemporary Art Creates Ancient "Art" Pedro Azara and Marc Marín Part Two: Perspectives from National Museums Chapter 4 170 Years of Curatorial Practices and Audiences at the Louvre: Exhibiting Ancient Middle Eastern Antiquities from 1847 to 2017 Ariane Thomas Chapter 5 Gallery 55 at the British Museum: Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC Irving Finkel and Alexandra Fletcher Chapter 6 Unlocking Architectures--Communicating Cultures: Ancient Middle Eastern Worlds in the Vorderasiatisches Museum Lutz Martin Chapter 7 And Now for Something Completely Different: The Renewal of the Ancient Middle Eastern Gallery in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities Lucas P. Petit Chapter 8 The Jordan Museum: Storyteller of Land and People Yosha Alamri and Jihad Kafafi Part Three: Perspectives from Art Museums Chapter 9 Exhibiting Interaction: Displaying the Arts of the Ancient Middle East in their Broader Context Joan Aruz and Yelena Rakic Chapter 10 Negotiations in Museum Practice: A Reinstalled Gallery of Ancient Middle Eastern Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts Swarupa Anila and Geoff Emberling Chapter 11 An Archaeological Exhibition without Archaeology? Joan Miró Looks at Mesopotamian Masterpieces Pedro Azara and Marc Marín Part Four: Perspectives from University Museums Chapter 12 Between visuality and context: Presenting Archaeological Narratives at the Oriental Institute John D.M. Green Chapter 13 The Middle East Gallery at the Penn Museum: A Curator's Reflections on Challenges and Opportunities Holly Pittman Chapter 14 The Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut and Its Educational Role: A Case Study Leila Badre Chapter 15 Beyond Display: Curriculum and Community Engagement with Ancient Middle Eastern Collections in a University Museum Andrew Jamieson and Annelies Van de Ven Commentary Chapter 16 Exhibiting Ancient Middle Eastern Art in America Peter Lacovara.