Dear Colleague, We are pleased to announce that the first issue of Museum Worlds - Advances in Research has recently been published by Berghahn Journals. All the articles in this volume deal in some way with the museum as a public institution with sets of obligations to, and entangled legacies of individuals and communities outside itself; moreover, all engage in different ways with theory. This is a wide-ranging issue, but the theme of the museum (however it might be defined) as a public sphere and public forum of some kind can be discerned running throughout. Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal: www.journals.berghahnbooks.com/air-mw Current Volume Volume 2, 2014 Editorial Sandra Dudley & Kylie Message http://bit.ly/1tADq0T ARTICLES The Sacred and the Museum: Repatriation and the Trajectories of Inalienable Possessions Chip Colwell-Chantaphonh http://bit.ly/1x2MOtW Hybridity — Objects as Contact Zones: A Critical Analysis of Objects in the West African Collections at the Manchester Museum Emma K. Poulter http://bit.ly/10lbh2d Translated Objects: The Olov Janse Case Johan Hegardt & Anna Källén http://bit.ly/1GgN8ux Assessing Museums Online: The Digital Heritage Sustainability (DHS) Framework Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws http://bit.ly/1wYe53e The Cosmohermeneutics of Migration Encounters at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne Philipp Schorch http://bit.ly/1ukLgwU Dubai’s Museum Types: A Structural Analytic John Biln and Mohamed El-Amrousi http://bit.ly/1tUmaDB From the Margins to the Center: The São Paulo Biennial, the Biennale of Sydney, and the Istanbul Biennial Rebecca Coates http://bit.ly/1qmypnE FORUM: Museums and Mental Health http://bit.ly/1wsrsHE REPORTS Museum Mediators in Europe: Connecting Learning in a Field of Experience Alice Semedo http://bit.ly/1s9hBRC Museums, Collecting, Agency: A Symposium Tanya Zoe Robinson http://bit.ly/1ph8Glu Inhabited Exhibitions Per Bjorn Rekdal http://bit.ly/1EdKnIm EXHIBITION REVIEWS http://bit.ly/1s9hYM3 BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS http://bit.ly/1x2MRGf BOOK REVIEWS http://bit.ly/1yRLWc8 Recommend Museum Worlds to your library Are you unable to access these articles through your library? As a key researcher in your field you can recommend Museum Worlds to your library for subscription. A form for this purpose is provided on the Museum Worlds website: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/air-mw/air-mw_lib.pdf For additional information, including subscription details as well as submission guidelines, visit http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/air-mw Please don’t hesitate to contact me directly if you have questions or would like more information. Kind regards, Young Lee Berghahn Journals [log in to unmask]