open museums journal
Australia's only peer-reviewed online museum journal | ISSN 1443-5144

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about the authors
Caleb Williams

Caleb Williams is currently a Curator at the Historic House Trust (of NSW), based at the Justice and Police Museum in Sydney. His belief that a museum should provide the visitor with a neutral space in which to encounter provocative, contemporary subjects has given rise to exhibitions such as Gangs: Subcultures of the Street 1880-1996; Tattoo: A History of the Decorated Body 1788-1997; Protest: Environmental Activism in NSW 1968-1998 and most recently - Hard Boiled: The Detective in Popular Culture (2000). Williams has reviewed for Labour History, his essays have been published in exhibition catalogue form and in the quarterly newsletter of the Historic Houses Trust, Insites.

Papers in the omj:

» Beyond Good and Evil?
The Taboo in the Contemporary Museum: Strategies for negotiation and representation