The Museum Manager's Compendium: 101 Essential Tools and Resources

· Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Ebook
420
Pages

About this ebook

The Museum Manager’s Compendium: 101 Essential Tools and Resources helps you make and implement your decisions as a museum manager and strategic planner. This book’s 101 sections present a treasure trove of definitions, diagrams, processes, choices, and worksheets, in major areas of museum management.

Collectively, they reflect the literature and contributions of some of the field’s best thinkers. The resources distill half a century of museum experience over hundreds of projects done by scores of talents and experts internationally for all types of museums.

The Museum Manager’s Compendium can be used as:
A frequent reference book to consult when facing decisions or planning for the futureA source of examples and templates of common museum reportsA source of answers and options for strategic planning questions A crib book to extract text when drafting internal proposals and plansA primer when welcoming new partners and Board membersA quick study and refresher of key aspects of museum practiceAn orientation to new staffA glossary for building shared definition among team members
The Museum Manager’s Compendium is for museum professionals—leaders, managers, coordinators, professional counsel, contractors, evaluators, supporters, and policy makers— to use often. It is a must-own reference book for every museum professional responsible for decisions and implementation.

About the author

John W. Jacobsen, president of White Oak Associates, Inc., has over four decades of international experience as a museum analyst, planner, and producer. He was also associate director of the Museum of Science in Boston. During that time, the Museum served 2.2 million visitors during a twelve-month period, an unsurpassed record. Before that management position and since then, Jacobsen and White Oak have led strategic planning and marketing initiatives for over one hundred museums through hundreds of commissions. Recent projects represent over a billion dollars of actual and anticipated investment in new and expanding museums internationally. White Oak’s museum analysis and planning integrate impact and economic indicators with conceptual and creative planning.

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