From imperial museum to communication centre?

U. Lehmkuhl: Welcoming Address – Introduction by the editors – In Dialogue: Egypt - Berlin – I. Abdulfattah: Title: Antiquities Museums and the Shaping of Egyptian Cultural Identity – O. Abdel Meguid: Museums, Culture and Sustainable Development – N. Tomoum: The Coptic Museum in Old Cairo - Egypt’s Christian Heritage – A New Policy for Egypt’s Museums – S. Kamel: Coming back from Egypt. Working on Exhibitions and Audience Development in Museums Today – C. Gerbich: Whom are they Talking to? Egyptian Museums and their Visitors – S. Weber: Collective Memory and Cultural Storage. Tasks and Opportunities for the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum – In Dialogue: North America - Berlin – S. Inglis: The „Other” and Ourselves: the Deconstruction of Distance – M. Wheeler: The Navajo Nation Museum. A Navajo Way of Researching and Presenting Culture – P. Bolz: Ethnic Art or Fine Art? Twenty Years of Collecting Native American Art for the Ethnological Museum Berlin – R. Hatoum: Musealizing Dialogue – In Dialogue: India - Berlin – K. Kumar Chakravarty: The Living Museum Movement in India - From Heritage Interpretation to Heritage Action – G. Devy: The Song of Orpheus. Refl ections on the Museum of Voice – V. Bhatt: Some Biographical Memories on the Museum of Mankind – K. Kumar Chakravarty: Collecting –Documenting - Mediating and Reinventing Cognitive Categories of Indigenous Cultures in India – L.-C. Koch: New Forms of Representation and Documentation of Asian Cultures with Special Reference to Music – L. Guzy: After Museum - On Museums and De-Musealisation in India