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Starting right : a basic guide to museum planning /
Are you thinking of starting a museum? Starting Right: A Basic Guide to Museum Planning uses straightforward, non-technical language to share the basics of museum planning in an evening's read. The third edition has been fully revised and updated to address the current issues facing new museums...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
AltaMira Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
| Colección: | American Association for State and Local History book series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The big questions
- What makes a good museum?
- How can you finance it?
- Where can you get help?
- Nuts and bolts
- Analyze for essentials
- What is your museum's mission and what are its limits?
- What collections do you have or need to serve your museum's purpose?
- How will you house your museum?
- How will you provide security?
- Organize for operation
- What governance provisions will your constitution make?
- What procedures will your bylaws contain?
- How will you clarify the relative responsibilities and prerogatives of board members, directors, staff members, and volunteers?
- What else can you do to promote harmony in your organization?
- Plan for activities
- What will be your collections policy?
- What conservation needs must you meet and how?
- What provisions will you make for ongoing research?
- What interpretive methods will you use to reach your publics?
- Recruit the human resources
- What time schedule for development will your museum follow?
- Who will direct your museum and how will you recruit that person?
- What staff positions, paid or volunteer, will you need?
- What provisions will you make for staff training in museum work and museum ethics?
- Now will it really work?
- How will you keep on track?
- How will you evaluate your museum's activities?
- How will you conduct ongoing planning?
- How will you keep your museum alive, dynamic, creative, even visionary, and closely connected to your community?
- Alternatives
- And if you don't want to do all that?
- And if you are planning a historic house museum?
- Some basic documents
- A. basic organization chart
- B. board membership responsibilities agreement
- Sample museum bylaws
- Sample position description for a director
- E. sample certificate of gift
- F. standard object cataloging record
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- About the authors.