Preface Collaboration as Strategy Taking Shape: Knowledge as Museum Display The Professional Museum: Who Needs It? Challenges for Today?s Museums Functioning in a Mass Culture Getting Out into the World ? and Staying There Cultural Diplomacy Economic Crisis or Cultural Opportunity? Museums and Memory Building Time: Experiencing Architecture as History Museum Architecture: New Glories, Old Concerns The Art of Redesigning our World Back Where It Belongs Contested Human Remains Repatriation in the Service of Society and its Development Forward to Freedom The Beauty and the Eye of Ireland Carried Away: The Lord Mayor?s State Coach London?s Historic Ties with Europe A Final Word to Mark the End of My Term as Director of theMuseum of London Do Museums Have a Role in Shaping the Global Community?Financial Crisis Again Ars Homo Erotica at the National Museum in WarsawContents Fast Forward: Brazil?s Museums Today Creating a Future for Our Cultural Institutions The Museum of Life: Driving through Gdansk in Pawel Huelle?sMercedes-Benz Museums at the Crossroads? Knowing Your Limits Acknowledgements References Cited.