Towards the Museum of the Future explores, through a series of authoritative essays, some of the major developments in European museums as they struggle to adapt in a rapidly changing world. It embraces a wide range of European countries, all types of museums and exhibitions and the needs of different museum audiences, and discusses the museum as communicator and educator in the context of current cultural concerns.

`This volume is an informative, stimulating and timely book...there is much in it for informed museum visitor to enjoy and muse over...We should all take heart from the energy, conviction and commitment expressed by these various authors: with their passionate belief in the continuing and renewed value of museums we can be confident that if our paymasters are also convinced, that museums will be flourishing and growing well into the 21st century.' - Museum News

Roger Miles is Head of the Department of Public Services at the Natural History Museum in London, where he has been responsible for a long series of major exhibitions for the general public., Lauro Zavala is Professor in the Department of Education and Communication at the Metropolitan Autonomous University at Xochimilco in Mexico City.