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Institution Wide Interpretive Planning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 78

Institution Wide Interpretive Planning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable. First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Leaning Into Value
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Leaning Into Value

Leaning into Value: Becoming a User-Focused Museum provides guidance to museum leaders struggling to navigate today’s often tumultuous, ever-changing economic, political, leisure and educational landscape. Provided is a concrete framework for maximizing institutional success, a continuous Value Realization process that enables museum leaders to effectively: 1) Calibrate the needs and interests of their current and potential users; 2) Articulate how and why they create value so they can foster enduring relationships with users; 3) Create an ever-evolving series of products and services that consistently deliver unique value to an ever-more diverse set of constituencies; and finally, 4) Validate their activities through empirical processes that promote evidence-based decision making and catalyze measurable, year-on-year improvements in their organization’s community value.

Manual of Museum Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Manual of Museum Management

The Manual of Museum Management, Third Edition presents a comprehensive and detailed analysis of: the principles of museum organization, the ways in which people work together to accomplish museum objectives, and the ways in which museums, large and small, can function most effectively. This new edition offers updated information on the key aspects of museum practice that dominate today – everything from “flatter” organizational models, shared leadership, the efflorescence of digital practice and complexity in the field, museums and social justice, the hard work and positive rewards of community engagement and partnership, platform “balance” to alternative revenue models. All new contemporary “snapshots” provided by practitioners and drawn from museums and galleries around the world bring the principles to life and digitally-accessed links and resources (in the e-book) round out the relevance and usefulness of this third edition.

Where is Queer?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 159

Where is Queer?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Curating Islamic Art Worldwide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

Curating Islamic Art Worldwide

This volume gives voice to cultural institutions working with collections of Islamic art and material culture globally, including many from outside Western Europe and North America. The contributions inform a vibrant, ongoing global conversation around curatorship in this field, one that embraces the responsibilities, challenges and opportunities for those engaged in it. Contributors—including art historians, curators and education specialists—discuss curatorial methodologies in theoretical and practical terms, present new exhibitions of Islamic art and culture, and explore the role of educational and engagement practices related to Islamic collections and Muslim audiences.

Reimagining Historic House Museums
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Reimagining Historic House Museums

Drawing from innovative organizations across the United States, Reimagining Historic House Museums is an indispensable source of field-tested tools and techniques drawn from such wide-ranging sources as non-profit management, business strategy, and software development. It also profiles historic sites that are using new models to engage with their communities to become more relevant, are adopting creative forms of interpretation and programming, and earning income to become more financially sustainable. The book is a combination of a museum conference, a hands-on workshop, and toolbox. It contains five main parts: Fundamentals and Essentials Audiences Different Approaches to Familiar Topics Methods Imagining New Kinds of House Museums This authoritative guide from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) will help house museum boards, directors, and staff seeking a path forward in rapidly changing times. Graduate programs in public history, museum studies, curatorial studies, and historic preservation will discover models and approaches that will provoke lively discussions about the issues facing the field.

Exhibits and Displays
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 153

Exhibits and Displays

Exhibits and displays are booming and in demand at all types of libraries. From simple displays of books to full-scale museum-quality exhibitions, library exhibits can highlight collections that surprise visitors, tell stories, and engage audiences in innovative ways. Often, exhibits feature more than books—showcasing art, photographs, archival materials, multimedia elements, as well as hands-on activities. Stepping outside traditional walls, digital exhibits reach audiences beyond the circulation desk and pave another way for libraries to share information, promote resources, and even lead change in the community. Despite the growing interest, most library and information science (LIS) pr...

Dictionary of Museology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 703

Dictionary of Museology

  • Categories: Art

The internationally focused Dictionary of Museology reflects the diversity of cultural and disciplinary approaches to theory and practice in the museum field today. The museum world is changing rapidly, and the characteristics and social roles of the world’s approximately 100,000 existing museums are constantly evolving. In addition to their traditional functions of preservation, research and communication, museums are increasingly addressing issues related to social inclusion, human rights, sustainable development and finances, all of which are explored in this dictionary. Drawing on the support of an international editorial committee, including influential figures from the US, Canada, Br...

Open(ing) Authority Through Community Engagement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 157

Open(ing) Authority Through Community Engagement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First Published in 2016. Part of the journal on reflective discourse, museums and social issues, Volume 7, number 2 is concerned with opening authority through community engagement and includes articles on a variety of topics.

Self-Care Rules
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 139

Self-Care Rules

Featuring 100 rules on self care for Body, Mind, and Spirit, this book will give you the information and tools to you need to easily and successfully implement self-care into your daily routine. Everyone knows that self care is important—but who has the time? This book, written by a veteran health journalist, with research backed by scientific research, will help you understand and implement healthful, nourishing behaviors in 100 easy-to-follow rules. From improving sleep, to eating mindfully, to combating loneliness, to easing stress, to fostering nourishing human connection this book will shows that not only is self-care for everyone, but can be achieved by everyone by simple, mindful tweaks. Written and researched by a veteran health journalist and backed by scientific research, this is an essential guide to healthful living for the modern human.