The journal Museums & Social Issues has taken on a variety of unexpected but important themes over recent years ranging from civic dialogue and wellness to parental involvement and incarceration. Now Kris Morrissey, its editor, along with Elee Wood, created this volume that includes graduate student writing which by inference brings into the forefront the interests of our younger staff and scholars and the need for graduate curriculum reform or at least increased emphasis on the issues of social concern. I am grateful to be asked to participate in this volume as an occasional visiting lecturer deeply devoted to making museums more responsive to the issues of the day. The administrative organization of a museum and its attitude toward visitors are often congruent with its philosophy and mission. The museums that place top priority on the preservation, care, research, and explication of the material artifacts of the past tend to preserve hierarchical organizational formats and use authoritative tones toward their visitors whom, they assume, have come to the museum to passively accept the presentation as definitive. This set up is what the public generally expects when the word “museum” is used, and that is partly why the public generally trusts museums. Trustworthiness, one would assume, is a desirable attribute for museums to have. But while trustworthiness is virtuous, often these museums’ lack of responsiveness to the changing social and technological landscape leads many of