U. Lehmkuhl: Welcoming Address - Introduction by the editors - In Dialogue: Egypt - Berlin - I. Abdulfattah: Title: Antiquities Museums and the Shaping of Egyptian Cultural Identity - O. Abdel Meguid: Museums, Culture and Sustainable Development - N. Tomoum: The Coptic Museum in Old Cairo - Egypt's Christian Heritage - A New Policy for Egypt's Museums - S. Kamel: Coming back from Egypt. Working on Exhibitions and Audience Development in Museums Today - C. Gerbich: Whom are they Talking to? Egyptian Museums and their Visitors - S. Weber: Collective Memory and Cultural Storage. Tasks and Opportunities for the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum - In Dialogue: North America - Berlin - S. Inglis: The "Other" and Ourselves: the Deconstruction of Distance - M. Wheeler: The Navajo Nation Museum. A Navajo Way of Researching and Presenting Culture - P. Bolz: Ethnic Art or Fine Art? Twenty Years of Collecting Native American Art for the Ethnological Museum Berlin - R. Hatoum: Musealizing Dialogue - In Dialogue: India - Berlin - K. Kumar Chakravarty: The Living Museum Movement in India - From Heritage Interpretation to Heritage Action - G. Devy: The Song of Orpheus. Refl ections on the Museum of Voice - V. Bhatt: Some Biographical Memories on the Museum of Mankind - K. Kumar Chakravarty: Collecting -Documenting - Mediating and Reinventing Cognitive Categories of Indigenous Cultures in India - L.-C. Koch: New Forms of Representation and Documentation of Asian Cultures with Special Reference to Music - L. Guzy: After Museum - On Museums and De-Musealisation in India