Introductions:
i ICOM Turns 70: Ethics and the Value Creation Role of Museums
Hans-Martin Hinz

ii The role of museums in the twenty-first century
Anne Catherine Robert-Hauglustaine

iii The Work of the ICOM Ethics Committee
Martin Schärer

iv Introduction
Bernice L Murphy

PART I: Museums and ethics, the ICOM Code, and evolving standards for museums’ heritage care and social commitment
1 ICOM’s present Code: ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums (2004)
Geoffrey Lewis

2 Ethical Issues and Standards for Natural History Museums
Eric Dorfman

3 Reversing the De-realisation of Natural and Social Phenomena: Ethical Issues for Museums in a Multidisciplinary Context
Michel Van-Praët

PART II: International Action on Protection of the World’s Cultural Heritage and Biosphere
4 UNESCO’s Actions and International Standards for Museums
Mechtild Rossler, and Nao Hayashi

5 The UNESCO Recommendation on the Protection and Promotion of Museums and Collections, their Diversity and Role in Society
François Mairesse

6 Protecting Cultural Heritage at Risk: an International Public Service Mission for ICOM
France Desmarais

7 Dances with Intellectual Property: Museums, Monetization and Digitization
Rina Pantalony

8 Stolen and Illegally Exported Artifacts in Collections: Key Issues for Museums within a Legal Framework
Marilyn Phelan

9 Advice and Support in the Recovery of Lost Art : The Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste Michael Franz

PART III: Heritage Care and Ethics Through the Lens of Multiple Cultures and Regions
10 Unchanging Ethics in a Changing World
Gary Edson
11 New Models of Shared Heritage and Collection Access: Museum Island and Humboldt Forum in Berlin
Herman Parzinger

12 A Museum Triangle: Ethics, Standards of Care, and the Pleasure of Perception
Dorota Folga- Januszewska

13 The Odyssey of Nature and Science Museums from Apollo to the Anthropocene
Emlyn Koster

14 The Chinese Museum: Transformation and Change through Ethics Construction
An Laishun

15 Ethics, Museology and Professional Training in Japan
Eiji Mizushima

PART IV: Provenance research, evolving issues and new directions across a changing landscape for collections
16 Advocating for International Collaborations: WWII-era Provenance Research in Museums Jane Milosch

17 ‘Definitely Stolen?’: Why There Is No Alternative to Provenance Research in Archaeological Museums
Markus Hilgert

18 Deaccessioning: some reflections
François Mairesse

19 Ethics in a Changing Social Landscape: Community Engagement and Public Participation in Museums.
Sally Yerkovitch

20 Conservation – How Ethics Work in Practice
Stephanie de Roemer

PART V: ‘Torn History’, Reshaping an Integrated Heritage, and Repatriation Issues
21 Using the Past to Forge a Future: Challenges of Uniting a Nation against Skeletal Odds Bongani Ndhlovu

22 Exhibiting Contentious and Difficult Histories: Ethics, Emotions and Reflexivity
Sharon Macdonald

23 Native America in the Twenty-First Century: Journeys in Cultural Governance and Museum Interpretation
W. Richard West, Jr.

24 Afro-descendent Heritage and its Unacknowledged Legacy in Latin American Museum Representation
Monica Gorgas

25 In Search of the Inclusive Museum
Amareswar Galla

PART VI: Case-Studies, Ethical Dilemmas and Ethics-in-Action
26 The Lombroso Museum in Turin: A Reflection on the Exhibition and Scientific Study of Human Remains
Alberto Garlandini & Stefano Montaldo

27 The Auschwitz-Birkenow Museum and a Claim to Portraits of Holocaust Victims Made by Artist Dinah Gottliebová Babitt
Vojtěch Blodig

28 The Mask of Ka-nefer-nefer
Regine Schulz

29 Ethics versus Law: The restitution of The Miracle of St Anthony by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Aedín MacDevitt

30 Ethics in Action: Situational Scenarios Turning the Keys to the Code of Ethics
Eva Maehre Lauritzen