1. Britain and the Visual Arts
2. Justifying the Museum
3. Struggling for a Voice : Learned Society and the Artists' Society in the Provincial City
4. Unpromising Soil : The Cities of the Industrial Revolution
5. The Universal Exhibition
6. For Instructions and Recreation
7. Art on Show
8. The Power of the Temporary Exhibition
9. A New Style of Collecting
10. Education in the Victorian Gallery
11. Patrons, Donors, Councillors, Curators, Visitors
12. Addressing the past
13. A New Order
14. The Aftermath.