Introduction / Larissa Förster ; The art of ruins in ancient China / Alain Schnapp I. Histories of transcultural collecting. Staging separation. Distant worlds in early museums / Dominik Collet ; A 17th-century Japanese minister's acquisition of Western pictures. Inoue Masahige (1585-1661) and his European objects / Timon Screech ; The materialisation of a specific knowledge order? Reflections on the Berlin Boas Northwest Coast Collection / Rainer Hatoum II. Museum (trans-)formations around 1900. Die Kodifizierung von Wissensordnungen. Das Wissenschafts- und Technikmuseum im langen 19. Jahrhundert / Helmuth Trischler ; Die Popularisierung des Menschen. Konstellationen von Objekten und Betrachtern im Deutschen Hygiene-Museum / Petra Lutz ; Object ideology. The formation of museology in early Soviet Russia / Roland Cvetkovski III. Contemporary perspectives. Thai monastery museums. Contemporary expressions of ancient traditions / Christina Kreps ; Crossing cultures, crossing time. A transforming moment in the history of the Ashmolean Museum / Susan Walker English summaries of german contributions ; Contributors. | 
