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just about all museums carry pictures of their collections, and museum pros and their audiences interact with images in a myriad of how. but regardless of a few 3 many years of serious museology and photographic idea, and an intensive debate at the politics of illustration, open air artwork museums, virtually no serious awareness has been given in particular to the jobs, reasons and lives of those images inside of museums. This booklet brings into concentration the ever-present but fullyyt unconsidered paintings that pictures are positioned to in museums. The authors' argument is that there's an economic climate of images in museums that's crucial to the methods of the museum, and indispensable to the certainty of museums. The foreign participants, drawn from curators and lecturers, replicate a number of visible and museological services. After an advent starting up the diversity of questions and difficulties, the 1st half addresses vast curatorial suggestions and methods of pondering images in museums. moving the emphasis from curatorial practices and anxieties to the gap of the gallery, this can be via a sequence of case stories of exhibitionary practices and the museum ideas that help them. The 3rd part specializes in the position of images within the museum articulation of ’difficult histories’. a last part addresses picture collections in a electronic surroundings. New applied sciences and new media have remodeled the administration, tackle and purposing in pictures in museums, from cataloguing practices to streaming on social media. those becoming practices problem either conventional hierarchies of information in museums and the site of authority approximately pictures. the quantity emerges from PhotoCLEC, a HERA funded venture on museums and the photographic legacy of the colonial prior in a postcolonial and multicultural Europe.