Foreword Jim Vaughn
Introduction Trevor Jones, Rainey Tisdale, Elizabeth Wood
A Manifesto for Active History Museum Collections Trevor Jones & Rainey Tisdale
Section 1: Conceptual Frameworks
1.Ten Principles for an Anti-Racist, Anti-Orientalist, Activist Approach to Collections Masum Momaya
2. Objects or People? Rainey Tisdale
Interlude: Sensory Deprivation: A Short Play Based on a Real-Life Scenario Elizabeth Wood
3. Museum Collections and Public Feelings Modupe Labode
Interlude: What Happens When Audiences "Talk" To Objects? Gabriel Taylor
4. Hoarding and Museum Collections: Conceptual Similarities and Differences Gail Steketee
5. The Vital Museum Collection Elizabeth Wood
6. Four Forceful Phrases: An Archival Change Agent Muses on Museology Mark Greene
Interlude: We are Collecting Empty Boxes? Elizabeth Wood, with Kayla Al Ameri
7. Rethinking Museum Collections in a Troubled World Robert R. Janes
Interlude: Activate Your Object: 51 Questions to Reveal Inactivity Katherine Rieck
Section II: New Ideas and Tools for Change
8. Tier your Collections: A Practical Tool for Making Clear Decisions in Collections Management Trevor Jones
9. #Meaning: Cataloging Active Collections Paul Bourcier
Interlude: Question the Database! Vickie Stone
10. Practical Strategies for Addressing Hoarding in Collections Gail Steketee
Interlude: Tidying Up Museum Collections Anne Jordan
11. Things in Flux: Collecting in the Constructivist Museum Benjamin Filene
Interlude: A (Practical) Inspiration: Do You Know What It Costs You to Collect? Trevor Jones
12. Reworking Collections Management Practices for How We Must Live Now: An Archival Case Study Susan M. Irwin and Linda A. Whitaker
13. Object Reincarnation: Imagining a Future Outside the Permanent Collection Kate Bowell
Epilogue: Imagine with Us Rainey Tisdale