Lara Kriegel - After the Exhibitionary Complex: Museum Histories and the Future of the Victorian Past - Victorian Studies 48:4 Victorian Studies 48.4 (2006) 681-704 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents After the Exhibitionary Complex: Museum Histories and the Future of the Victorian Past Reviewed by Lara Kriegel Florida International University Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture, by Robert D. Aguirre; pp. xxix + 198. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. $67.50, $22.50 paper. Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism, by Tony Bennett; pp. xv + 233. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. £20.99, $37.95. Culture and Class in English Public Museums, 1850–1914, by Kate Hill; pp. x + 174. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. £45.00, $89.95. Brain of the Earth's Body: Art, Museums, and the Phantasms of Modernity, by Donald Preziosi; pp. xii + 175. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. $22.50. The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth Century Britain: The Development of the National Gallery, by Christopher Whitehead; pp. xix + 270. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. £50.00, $94.95. Museums are, unquestionably, among the most Victorian of institutions, monuments to their age and "master pattern[s]" of its cultural logics. Their edifices provide living tributes to the nineteenth-century projects of liberal reform, urban government, and imperial engagement. Their holdings offer...