Tiffany Jenkins is an author, academic, broadcaster, and consultant on cultural policy. Her writing credits include the Independent, the Art Newspaper, the Guardian, the Scotsman (for which she was a weekly columnist on social and cultural issues) and the Spectator. She is an Honorary Fellow in Department of Art History at the University of Edinburgh; a former visiting fellow in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and was previously the director of the Arts and Society Programme at the Institute of Ideas. She competed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Kent and divides her time between London and Edinburgh.

She has advised a number of organisations on cultural policy, including Trinity College, Dublin; English Heritage; the British Council; the Norwegian government; the University of Oslo; Norwegian Theatres and Orchestras; and the National Touring Network for Performing Arts, Norway.

• Introduction


• PART I


• 1: Great Explorers and Curious Collectors


• 2: The Birth of the Public Museum


• 3: Antiquity Fever


• 4: Cases of Loot


• PART II


• 5: Museum Wars


• 6: Who Owns Culture?


• 7: The Rise of Identity Museums


• 8: Atonement: Making Amends for Past Wrongs


• 9: Burying Knowledge: The Fate of Human Remains


• Concluding Thoughts


• Notes


• Further Reading


• Index