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The book is particularly suited for staff members in small or medium-sized museums who are interested in understanding and developing basic budgets. It would also serve as a helpful resource for individuals advancing into leadership positions which require stronger administrative skills.

Here is will be a practical guide based on deep research that helps art museum educators understand the role and value of spaces designed for families and helps them to create dedicated spaces for intergenerational play and learning.

This book uses curated roundtables, case studies and interviews with cultural innovators and changemakers in contemporary art who offer tools to dismantle institutional hierarchies and reshape museums into more vital and relevant forms.

This book draws from the author's nearly three-decade career of being "the only one in the room". Cecile Shellman builds a process for individualizing, identifying, and prioritizing DEAI challenges; acknowledges key universal challenges in goal-setting and goal achieving; and shares resources and tools for making and charting progress.

In this book, Michael Murawski explores the work of museums as agents of change through inspiring case studies as well as his own honest, personal experiences as a museum educator, offering effective strategies for museums to enact change in their communities and, most importantly, convert talk into action

The Civic Mission of Museums, explores the way in which museums can leverage their collections and their connections within and beyond their communities to serve democracy as a whole.

This book brings the reader up to date on the stories behind the people and events that have transformed America's museums from their beginnings into today's vibrant cultural institutions. Updates include color timelines, material on digital curation, emergent exhibitions about civil rights, immersive museum environments, and more.

Organizing a traveling exhibition for the first time or the tenth time? This second edition of On the Road Again covers all you need to know about touring an exhibition to multiple venues. Appropriate for staff at all types of museums, particularly those at small and midsize institutions, this title is a must for every museum bookshelf.

This book provides a fresh and practical look on mission statements and strategic thinking. Anderson lays out the importance of mission statements while providing useful examples of vision, values, and other components typically a part of a museum's strategic framework. This book takes the discussion to the present and into the future.

This volume makes the case for the "why" and the "how" of museum partnerships in today's hyper-connected and networked world. It features candid interviews with national museum, philanthropic, and nonprofit leaders and case studies of effective partnerships from museums of different disciplines and sizes.

This revised edition of Things Great and Small is a comprehensive resource for preparing and applying collections management policies. Simmons reviews current ideas and literature on the subject, highlights the issues that collections management policies should address, and explains the pros and cons of choosing some policy options over others.

Through the decades, museums transformed themselves from cabinets of curiosity to centers of civic pride and prestige and emblems of our shared heritage, good and bad. This title describes the rise of the museum in the United States from the early twentieth century onwards. It is also a story that parallels historic changes in American society.

A Deaccession Reader is intended to assist those who are responsible for developing a deaccession program. It includes collections disposal policies from several museums, as well as statements from professional organizations, including AAM, AAMD, and AASLH.

For the first time, the U.S. museum profession's current operating standards in areas from public accountability to facilities and risk management are available in a single publication. This guide is an essential reference work for the museum community, presenting the ideals that should be upheld by every museum striving to maintain excellence in its operations.

In this collection of his work from the mid-1980s to the present, including new chapters written for this book, Lonnie G. Bunch III presents a personal and passionate view of American history, "the Gordian knot" of race relations, and the role of the museum in shaping the perspective of a nation.

Collection Conundrums: Solving Museum Registration Mysteries provides guidelines for investigating the oddities found in every museum collection - objects without record, identification or sometimes even a location - and determining what to do. Written by registrars Rebecca Buck and Jean A. Gilmore, this volume contains essential information for museums large and small, new and old.

Harold and Susan Skramstad, two of the field's most highly regarded experts in museum management, outline the tools you and your board need to handle the challenges facing museums today. A Handbook for Museum Trustees was written to help museum trustees better understand the "why" and the "how" of trusteeship, giving board members and museum directors a thorough understanding of their critical and non-negotiable duties.

In Cities, Museums and Soft Power, museum planners Gail Lord and Ngaire Blankenberg demonstrate how museums and cities are using their soft power to address some of the most important issues of our time. Soft power is the exercise of influence through attraction, persuasion, and agenda setting rather than military or economic coercion.

Through helpful hints, logistical tips, and documents, A Museums and Community Toolkit helps museums plan successful museum-community dialogues.

Looks at socalled magnetic organizations, namely ones that combine a powerful internal alignment with a compelling vision so that they are able to attract critical resources, such as talented and committed employees, loyal audiences, engaged donors, and the financial capital required to sustain programmatic excellence and growth.

From the experienced leader or the mid-career professional hoping for a promotion to a recent grad applying for a first internship, this book provides museum professionals, both experts and novices, with information for reaching their career goals. Providing advice, practical tips, and personal stories, it spans an array of museum disciplines.

How do we judge what is good in art? And more to the point, can we even judge art? The author takes us on a grand tour of ancient and contemporary art, sharing five simple metrics of quality that help us to increase our visual literacy as we learn to see and, yes, even to judge art.