Museums and Social Change explores the ways museums can work in collaboration with marginalised groups to work for social change and, in so doing, re-think the museum.

Introduction - Neither helpful nor unhelpful - a clear way forward for the useful museum; PART I Museums and co-creation; 1 Behind barbed wire: Co-producing the Danish Welfare Museum; 2. Rewriting the script: Power and change through a Museum of Homelessness; 3. March of Women: equality and usefulness in action at Glasgow Women's Library; 4.In the name of the museum: The cultural actions and values of the Togo Rural Village Art Museum, Taiwan; Part II Revealing hidden narratives; 5. Revealing hidden stories at the Danish Welfare Museum: A collaborative history; 6. Doors, stairways and pitfalls: Care Leavers' memory work at the Danish Welfare Museum; 7. 'We cannot change the past, but we can change how we look at the past': The use of creative writing in facing up to personal histories at the Danish Welfare Museum; 8. Invite, acknowledge and collect with respect: Sensitive narratives at the Vest-Agder Museum, Norway; 9. 'Nothing about, us without us': The journey to cultural democracy at Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales; 10. Slow, uncomfortable, and badly paid: DisPLACE and the benefits of disability history; Part III: Taking back; 11. The act of emancipating oneself: The museum and the release of adult Care Leavers' case records; 12. A call to justice at the National Museum of Australia