Approaches to displaying death in museums : an introduction / Elena Stylianou & Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert -- Part ievidencing the past -- Negotiating death at the Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum / J.M. Hammond -- Honoring the dead : photography and the display of the Jewish Necropolis at the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki / Iro Katsaridou -- "Death from the skies" : photographs in museums of the aerial bombing of civilians during World War Two / Sheila Watson -- Saints, martyrs and heroes : "sacred displays" or the iconography of death in Cypriot museums / Yiannis Toumazis -- Part II. The spectable of death -- The war/photography exhibition and the display of death / Jean Kempf -- "Persons unknown" : lynching photographs in the museum / RM Wolff -- Human skulls and photographs of dead bandits : the problems of presenting a nineteenth century museum to twenty-first-century-audiences / Silvano Montaldo and Eleanor Chiari -- Our first murder : exhibiting evidence outside the police archive / Stella Pekiaridi -- Part III. Empathy and restoring anonymity -- A gallery of martyrs, the martyr in the gallery : public display and the artistic appropriation of martyr images in the Middle East / Verena Straub -- What will you remember when I'm gone? : funerary photography in the gallery's public/private space / Rosanne Altstatt -- Remediating death at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum / Rachel Perry -- Photography and the museum : visiting the sight of death / Pam Meecham -- Part IV. Museums as agents of change -- Double exposure : absence and evidence in Ken Gonzales-Day's erased lynching / Reilley Bishop-Stall -- On May 1, 2011 (Alfredo Jaar, 2011) : expanding the frame of the original photograph / Mafalda D?amaso -- Photography as a form of taxidermy : Zoe Leonard's preserved head of a bearded woman, Mus?ee Orfila / Chelsea Nichols.