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List members may be interested in this new book, currently available at a 15% launch savings. "A 600-page guide to innovation and new thinking about museums in the world's economic powerhouse." A uniquely distinguished range of professionals with senior experience of museums share their experience in Reimagining Museums - a groundbreaking guide to the innovative and globally-significant museum developments taking place in this important region. Economic growth in the Gulf States of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia is happening at extreme speed, with results both familiar and spectacular: ultra-modern cities, major new tourism destinations, and unprecedented global economic engagement through huge sovereign wealth funds investing worldwide. The last five years have also witnessed extensive and rapid growth in museum activity in the region, with the regeneration of existing museums, the founding of major new ones, and the creation of international satellites. Reimagining Museums is the first book to examine the emerging, innovative - and globally-significant - museum developments taking place there. Ultimately this book aims to inspire museum practice both in the region and around the world. For full details of the book's content, the authors, and to place your order at a 15% savings, please visit: www.museumsetc.com/products/peninsula Reimagining Museums is edited by Dr Pamela Erskine-Loftus, who has held senior museum positions in the USA (as Manager of the Department of Education, MoMA, New York), United Arab Emirates (Sharjah Museums Department), and Qatar (as Curator with Qatar Museums Authority). She holds a doctorate in Arabian Peninsula museology, and a Masters in Museum Studies with a dissertation on the effects of the 1991 Gulf War on art museums in Kuwait and Iraq, and has written and presented internationally on aspects of Peninsula museology. I'm sure you'll find this groundbreaking publication both stimulating and highly relevant, wherever your museum is located. Graeme Farnell Publisher, MuseumsEtc _______________________________________________________ MuseumsEtc Ltd UK: Hudson House | 8 Albany Street | Edinburgh EH1 3QB USA: 675 Massachusetts Ave., Ste 11 | Cambridge | MA 02139 _______________________________________________________