Introduction : museum exhibitions as powerplays
Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars of the 1990s
Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum
Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia
Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art
Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History
The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life
Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum
Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation
Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum
Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum.