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Eilean Hooper-Greenhill,  Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture, Routledge.

Recent scholarship in museum studies has addressed the pitfalls of the modern museum and numerous scholars have proposed methods to reinvent the museum.

This scholarship has primarily emerged from the fields of museum studies, history, anthropology, and art history. In Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture (), Eilean Hooper-Greenhill contributes to this conversation by applying research from across disciplines, including media studies, educational theory, and indigenous histories, to highlight the cultural politics inherent in European museum displays.

Hooper-Greenhill applies this multi-disciplinary approach to specific objects and collections first to argue that objects on display are made meaningful according to the historically- and culturally-informed interpretive frameworks into which they are placed and the perspectives from which they are seen, and second to argue that a ne