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MANAGING A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY "AMERICA'S MUSEUMS" Daedalus Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Volume 128, Number 3, Summer 1999 http://www.daedalus.amacad.org/ Daedalus now turns to the vital contributions made by museums to our intellectual and cultural life. Contributors to this issue:
Bonnie Pitman, "Muses, Museums, and Memories" Executive Director, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, California
Neil Harris, "The Divided House of the American Art Museum" Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of History, University of Chicago
Chon A. Noriega, "On Museum Row: Aesthetics and the Politics of Exhibition" Associate Professor of film and television, University of California, Los Angeles
Kathleen McLean, "Museum Exhibitions and the Dynamics of Dialogue" Director of Public Programs, Center for Public Exhibition, The Exploratorium
Harold Skramstad, "An Agenda for American Museums in the Twenty-First Century" President Emeritus, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
Maxwell L. Anderson, "Museums of the Future: The Impact of Technology on Museum Practices" Director, Whitney Museum of American Art
Elaine Heumann Gurian, "What is the Object of this Exercise? A Meandering Exploration of the Many Meanings of Objects in Museums" Acting Director, Cranbrook Institute of Science
Willard L. Boyd, "Museums as Centers of Controversy" President emeritus, Field Museum; professor of law and president emeritus, University of Iowa
Stephen E. Weil, "From Being about Something to Being for Somebody: The Ongoing Transformation of the American Museum" Emeritus senior scholar, Center for Museum Studies, Smithsonian Institution
John H. Falk, "Museums as Institutions for Personal Learning" Director, Institute for Learning Innovation
Emlyn H. Koster, "In Search of Relevance: Science Centers as Innovators in the Evolution of Museums" President and Chief Executive Officer, Liberty Science Center
Susanna Sirefman, "Formed and Forming: Contemporary Museum Architecture" Adjunct Associate Professor of architecture, City College of New York
Victoria Newhouse, "Is ‘The Idea of a Museum’ Possible Today?" Author, Towards a New Museum
Charles Correa, "Museums: An Alternate Typology" Charles Correa Architects/Planners
Bernard Tschumi and Bernard Tschumi Architects, "On the Museum of the Twenty-First Century: An Homage to Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities" Dean, Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University
THE NEW MUSEUM REGISTRATION METHODS 4th edition Edited by Rebecca A. Buck and Jean Allman Gilmore American Association of Museums, 1998 ISBN 0-931201-31-4
The "bible of museum registrars," updated for the 21st century, with more than 50 all-new chapters covering the complete registration procedure, proper care and storage of objects, collections management, documentation, computerization of records, shipping and handling, insurance, security, ethics and legal issues, and much more. An indispensable reference book for museum professionals working in any kind and size of institution. This long- awaited new edition replaces the 1979 Dudley and Wilkinson edition. Prepared by the Registrars Committee, a Standing Professional Committee of AAM
THE MUSEUM EXPERIENCE John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking Whalesback Books, 1992 ISBN 0-929590-06-6
Written in a clear, non-technical style, The Museum Experience gives museum professionals a thorough introduction to what is known about why people go to museums, what they do there, and what they learn. It also offers recommendations and guidelines to help museum staff understand their clientele and their interactions with them.
MUSEUM STRATEGY AND MARKETING: DESIGNING MISSIONS, BUILDING AUDIENCES, GENERATING REVENUE AND RESOURCES Neil Kotler and Philip Kotler Jossey-Bass, 1998 ISBN 0-7879-0912-2
This comprehensive guide to strategic planning and marketing for museums provides a framework for building revenue, audiences, and resources while maintaining and advancing mission, rather than seeing marketing as antithetical to mission. Using strategic planning, budgeting, advertising, media relations, fund raising, and more, museum managers can use this handbook to create and nurture a thriving museum.
THE MANUAL OF MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS Edited by Barry Lord and Gail Dexter Lord AltaMira Press, 2001 ISBN 0-7591-0234-1
This title is a practical, hands-on, comprehensive guide to the entire process of planning, designing, producing, and evaluating exhibitions for museums of all kinds. It includes contributions by masters of each step in the complex art of museum exhibition making. Subjects range from traditional displays of art, artifacts, and specimens from the permanent collection to the latest developments in virtual reality, online exhibitions, simulators, and big-screen reality. An array of case studies featuring exhibitions from both sides of the Atlantic makes this manual all the more valuable to practitioners and students of the museum profession, architects, designers and the many specialized contractors involved in 21st-century exhibitions. The book is also useful and interesting reading for museum trustees and board members, volunteers, and all others who understand and enjoy the educational value of today's museum exhibitions. The scope of the manual includes evaluation processes, exhibition gallery requirements, and practical methods for each step in the planning, design, production, and project management of exhibitions.
A LEGAL PRIMER ON MANAGING MUSEUM COLLECTIONS 2nd edition Marie C. Malaro Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998 ISBN 1-56098-787-1
Malaro focuses on collection-related problems and legal entanglement issues, reviews relevant cases and court decisions, and gives advice on when a museum should seek legal counsel. Completely revised, expanded and updated! The new edition includes discussion of stolen artwork, developments in copyright, and digital imaging. This easy-to-use text provides outlines, checklists, and model documents.
EXHIBIT LABELS: AN INTERPRETIVE APPROACH Beverly Serrell AltaMira Press/American Association for State and Local History, 1996 ISBN 0-7619-9106-9
A vital reference tool for all exhibit professionals. Includes discussions of label planning, writing, design, and publication. Contains resource list, glossary, and bibliography.
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