How to Close a Museum

How to Close a Museum
Author: Susana Smith Bautista
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1538148994

How to Close a Museum: A Practical Guide answers your questions about closing a museum. Even if you are just considering your options during difficult times and planning for your future, this book takes you through all the legal, ethical, and operational questions to start thinking about. It clearly lays out all the steps to follow to dissolve the nonprofit corporation, how to work with the board, disperse assets, create a final staffing plan, media relations, archival materials, community relations, and how to deal with donors and preserve the legacy of the organization. Included in the book are valuable forms, creative ideas, and sample documents to save you time. Written by Dr. Susana Bautista, an experienced museum administrator, curator, and museologist, who personally went though this process of closing a museum as the last executive director of the Pasadena Museum of California Art in 2018. She will recount her experiences and lessons learned, as well as those of other museum leaders who have gone through similar experiences, so that all museum professionals will be better prepared for what is always a stressful and emotional experience.

Culture Strike

Culture Strike
Author: Laura Raicovich
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1839760524

A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire. Protestors have mobilized against sources of museum funding, as happened at the Metropolitan Museum, and against board appointments, forcing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders to resign at the Whitney. That is to say nothing of demonstrations against exhibitions and artworks. Protests have roiled institutions across the world, from the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim to the Akron Art Museum. A popular expectation has grown that galleries and museums should work for social change. As Director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich helped turn that New York muni- cipal institution into a public commons for art and activism, organizing high-powered exhibitions that doubled as political protests. Then in January 2018, she resigned, after a dispute with the Queens Museum board and city officials. This public controversy followed the museum’s responses to Donald Trump’s election, including her objections to the Israeli government using the museum for an event featuring Vice President Mike Pence. In this lucid and accessible book, Raicovich examines some of the key museum flashpoints and provides historical context for the current controversies. She shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding conservative, capitalist values. And she suggests ways museums can be reinvented to serve better, public ends.

The Cat in the Hat.

The Cat in the Hat.
Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 73
Release: 1985
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307930440

Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the cat who shows them some tricks and games.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Author: Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300063417

"This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.

Island Life

Island Life
Author: Jay Fleming
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780997746815

Photographer Jay Fleming turned his attention to Smith and Tangier Islands - the Chesapeake Bay's last inhabited 'water-locked' islands. Fleming has made countless trips to the islands to document the unique way of life and environment that have been shaped by isolation and the waters of the Chesapeake. This collection of photographs will fill the pages of Fleming's second book, Island Life. This body work comes at an important time for the islands, as their populations continue to decline and the unrelenting forces of the bay threaten the working working waterfronts that have sustained the communities for centuries. Fleming hopes that his photography will immerse readers in the Island Life and capture a crucial moment in time for the Chesapeake's most unique communities.

Things Great and Small

Things Great and Small
Author: John E. Simmons
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2024-03-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 153818379X

Collection care is a fundamental responsibility for museums and other collecting institutions, and the foundation of collection stewardship is good collection management policies. The new third edition of Things Great and Small continues to be a comprehensive resource for developing, implementing, and revising collection management policies and includes new information for addressing prolonged or permanent closure of museums, wider parameters for collection storage environments, and sustainable collection management practices to cope with climate change. Drawing on more than 50 years of experience as a collection manager, educator, consultant, and AAM Museum Assessment Program peer reviewer, John E. Simmons reviews the most recent collection management thinking and literature, helps determine which policies an institution needs, and provides guidance on policy content. In this new edition, coverage of critical areas is expanded, including digital objects, intellectual property rights, deaccessioning, decolonization, standards and best practices, collection storage environment parameters, managing off-site storage facilities, health and safety, laws and regulations, risk management, and sustainable collection management practices. With more than 50 tables and charts and model policy templates, this major publication is aimed at museums of all kinds, historic houses and sites, and other collecting institutions.

Your Museum Needs a Podcast

Your Museum Needs a Podcast
Author: Hannah Hethmon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Museum techniques
ISBN: 9781723931024

Want to start a podcast for your organization, but unsure of where to begin? Looking for new ways to meaningfully engage your audience? Need to convince leadership that a podcast is the right move for your museum, history organization, library, religious institution, or cultural nonprofit? This practical and action-oriented beginner's guide will show you how to create a great podcast on a budget, from choosing a topic to reaching the right audience. Each chapter is tailored to the needs of cultural nonprofits, giving you a detailed roadmap for producing a podcast that supports your institutional mission. Inside, you'll find simple, concise advice and instruction that gives you just what you need to get started, without any treatises on sound engineering or editing. All the unnecessary stuff has been left out so you can just read the book, follow the instructions, and get started without breaking the bank or wasting hours wading through incomplete instructions on the internet. In Your Museum Needs a Podcast, award-winning podcaster Hannah Hethmon will teach you how to unlock the power of podcasting at your institution through: A whole chapter on developing a show concept that will accomplish your organization's goals and pitching it to your stakeholders. A gear guide with just what you need to know to get started and tailored equipment recommendations. Detailed instructions on how to set-up your recording equipment, get great sound quality (without having to learn sound engineering), and edit episodes using free online software. A breakdown of what makes a podcast compelling and how you can use the art of storytelling to create a show that your listeners will love. Strategies for launching your show and building a devoted listener base from day one. Answers to common questions like where to how long episodes should be, where to find free music, which hosting service to use, how to hire outside experts, and more. Free worksheets and templates to help you implement the book's lessons. Read this book, and you'll know everything you need to start a podcast for your organization and turn your audience into devoted fans. What are you waiting for? How long will you wait to start engaging your core audience, reaching new audiences who would love your institution, and increasing your online profile? Scroll to the top now and click the Buy Now" Button!

A Child’s Garden of Verses

A Child’s Garden of Verses
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752423390

Reproduction of the original: A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Museums Journal

The Museums Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 622
Release: 1921
Genre: Museums
ISBN:

"Indexes to papers read before the Museums Association, 1890-1909. Comp. by Charles Madeley": v. 9, p. 427-452.