Introduction
1. Museums in an age of paradox
2. Museums don't matter?
3. Back to basics
4. Stones can speak and objects can sing
5. Sex and drugs and rock’n’roll … and museums?
6. Popular culture in museums since 1997
7. It’s coming home, it’s coming home, this football’s coming home
8. Case study: football in museums
9. Real things, real places, real people
Bibliography
Index