1 As opposed to the frequently trotted out claim that ‘Brisbane was put on the map by Expo ‘88’.Google Scholar

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3 Personal communication.Google Scholar

4 Acknowledgments to my archivist mentor, Verne Harris, for his incisive phrase here. Referring to archives, he writes: ‘The record provides just a sliver of a window into the event … [Through destruction of records deliberate and inadvertent we are left with] a sliver of a sliver from which archivists select what they will preserve.’ From ‘Claiming Less, Delivering More: A Critique of Positivist Formulations on Archives in South Africa’, in Archivaria, 44 (1997): 132–41.Google Scholar

5 Postman, Neil in ‘Museum as Dialogue’, Museum News, September/October (1990): 55–58.Google Scholar

6 This article, which was photocopied many times and circulated in women's collectives, was by Jo Kerr. It was covered in various magazines and journals in the 1970s. Its first official publication was in The Second Wave 2(1) (1972).Google Scholar

7 Quoted from the text panel near the entrance to the exhibition.Google Scholar

8 See, for example, Katherine Kuh's article ‘Explaining Art Visually’ in Museum International 53(4) (2001) in which she discusses her ways of engaging visitors to interrogate the exhibitions, while curator of the Gallery of Art Interpretation and associate curator of painting and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago.Google Scholar

9 See, amongst others, Stephen Weil in ‘The Proper Business of the Museum: Ideas or Things?’ Muse, 7(1) (1989): 28–32.Google Scholar

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11 Louise Denoon quoted in an article on the 4ZZZ website, www.4zzzfm.org.au/events.Google Scholar

12 See Linda Young's article ‘Significance, Connoisseurship, and Facilitation’ in Museum Management and Curatorship, 13 (1994): 191–99, and her acknowledgment of Chris Johnston's work on facilitated community-focused significance assessment.Google Scholar

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14 O'Neill, M., (unpublished,1994), cited in Kavanagh, G., Dream Spaces: Memory and the Museum (London: Leicester University Press, 2000), 2.Google Scholar

15 See, for example, my article ‘Past in the Present: Commemoration and Healing at the Women's Jail in Johannesburg’ in Museums Australia November (2006): 12–13.Google Scholar

16 Postman, Neil ‘Museum as Dialogue’, Museum News, September/October (1990): 55–58.Google Scholar