Museums and their practices of collection, curation and exhibition raise a host of philosophical questions. The philosophy of museums is a relatively new and growing sub-discipline within the academic field of philosophy. Philosophers active in the philosophy of museums are less concerned with intra-disciplinary differences than they are with thinking about the museum on its own terms as a phenomenon calling for philosophical engagement. As such, the promise of the philosophy of museums is that, despite it being a sub-field of a larger discipline, it will enable a fresh look at its parent discipline while also prompting the development of new perspectives on more traditional philosophical questions. Philosophical approaches will also help us to understand museums and their objects in a myriad of new ways, as this emerging discipline within the broad church of philosophy matures over the coming years. Although many of the philosophical questions raised by museums are ethical, the philosophy of museums goes beyond the confines of any single established area of philosophy, such as ethics, aesthetics or metaphysics. Work within the philosophy of museums thus now ranges over themes such as, philosophical museology, the epistemological and ethical dimension of humanity and social life, culture, and religion, as well as those more directly connected to issues arising from museum practices of curation, conservation, and exhibition.