The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums; this book examines the contemporary debate surrounding the museum and museum collections in postcolonial Europe.

This book was published as a special issue of Africa and Black Diaspora: An International Journal.

Dominic Thomas is the Chair of the departments of French and Francophone Studies and Italian at the University of California Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of Nation-Building, Propaganda and Literature in Francophone Africa (Indiana University Press, 2002) and Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism (Indiana University Press, 2007).

1. Museums in Postcolonial Europe/Postcolonial Europe in Museums: An Introduction 2. Colonial Museums in a Post-Colonial Europe 3. "The Remains of the Day": The British and Commonwealth Museum 4. Finding a home in Hackney? Reimagining narratives of slavery through a multicultural community museum space 5. Museum Practices and the Belgian Colonial Past: Questioning the Memories of an Ambivalent Metropole 6. Displaying Colonial Artifacts in Paris: Musée Permanent des Colonies to Musée du Quai Branly 7. Le Musée d'Art au Hasard": Responses of Black Paris to French Museum Culture 8. Will the Musée du Quai Branly Show France the Way to Postcoloniality? 9. Still the Family Secret? The Representation of Colonialism in the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration 10. Object/Subject Migration: The National Centre of the History of Immigration