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  • af Stephen E. Weil
    648,95 kr.

    A Deaccession Reader is intended to assist those who are responsible for developing a deaccession program. It includes collections disposal policies from several museums, as well as statements from professional organizations, including AAM, AAMD, and AASLH.

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    528,95 kr.

    For the first time, the U.S. museum profession's current operating standards in areas from public accountability to facilities and risk management are available in a single publication. This guide is an essential reference work for the museum community, presenting the ideals that should be upheld by every museum striving to maintain excellence in its operations.

  • - Essays on History, Race & Museums
    af Lonnie G. Bunch III
    748,95 kr.

    In this collection of his work from the mid-1980s to the present, including new chapters written for this book, Lonnie G. Bunch III presents a personal and passionate view of American history, "the Gordian knot" of race relations, and the role of the museum in shaping the perspective of a nation.

  • - Solving Collections Management Mysteries
     
    509,95 kr.

    Collection Conundrums: Solving Museum Registration Mysteries provides guidelines for investigating the oddities found in every museum collection - objects without record, identification or sometimes even a location - and determining what to do. Written by registrars Rebecca Buck and Jean A. Gilmore, this volume contains essential information for museums large and small, new and old.

  • af Harold Skramstad
    799,95 kr.

    Harold and Susan Skramstad, two of the field's most highly regarded experts in museum management, outline the tools you and your board need to handle the challenges facing museums today. A Handbook for Museum Trustees was written to help museum trustees better understand the "why" and the "how" of trusteeship, giving board members and museum directors a thorough understanding of their critical and non-negotiable duties.

  • af Gail Dexter Lord & Ngaire Blankenberg
    273,95 kr.

    In Cities, Museums and Soft Power, museum planners Gail Lord and Ngaire Blankenberg demonstrate how museums and cities are using their soft power to address some of the most important issues of our time. Soft power is the exercise of influence through attraction, persuasion, and agenda setting rather than military or economic coercion.

  • af American Alliance of Museums
    518,95 kr.

    Through helpful hints, logistical tips, and documents, A Museums and Community Toolkit helps museums plan successful museum-community dialogues.

  • - The Art and Science of Engagement
    af Anne Bergeron
    608,95 kr.

    Looks at socalled magnetic organizations, namely ones that combine a powerful internal alignment with a compelling vision so that they are able to attract critical resources, such as talented and committed employees, loyal audiences, engaged donors, and the financial capital required to sustain programmatic excellence and growth.

  • - 100 Years of Museums in America
    af Marjorie Schwarzer
    377,95 kr.

    Through the decades, museums transformed themselves from cabinets of curiosity to centers of civic pride and prestige and emblems of our shared heritage, good and bad. This title describes the rise of the museum in the United States from the early twentieth century onwards. It is also a story that parallels historic changes in American society.

  • - Sacred People, Places and Things In Our Lives
    af Gary Vikan
    597,95 kr.

    Graceland is much more than a wildly popular tourist destination associated with a famous entertainer, and Elvis Presley is much more than the King of Rock 'n' Roll. This title posits that Graceland, the second-most-visited historic house in the United States, is a locus sanctus - a holy place - and Elvis is its resident saint.

  • - Managing Your Museum Career
     
    568,95 kr.

    From the experienced leader or the mid-career professional hoping for a promotion to a recent grad applying for a first internship, this book provides museum professionals, both experts and novices, with information for reaching their career goals. Providing advice, practical tips, and personal stories, it spans an array of museum disciplines.

  • - Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye
    af Maxwell L. Anderson
    527,95 kr.

    How do we judge what is good in art? And more to the point, can we even judge art? The author takes us on a grand tour of ancient and contemporary art, sharing five simple metrics of quality that help us to increase our visual literacy as we learn to see and, yes, even to judge art.

  • - National Identity, International Understanding
    af Catherine M. Lewis, Jennifer Dickey & Samir El Azhar
    738,95 kr.

    Most museum visitors can see how national character is reflected in the museum's layout and collection. This title looks at the way globalization has shaped museum culture, and in turn how museums have shaped the public's understanding of various local, regional, and national identities.