The effective museum : rethinking museum practices to increase impact / John W. Jacobsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobsen, John W., author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Management.

Museums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]

Summary:

The aim of The Effective Museum: Big Ideas to Increase Impact is to provide every museum professional with practical ways to be more effective at achieving their intentional purposes. The short, pragmatic book provides museum professionals and students internationally with new perspectives on how to organize and run museums more effectively.

Contents:

Pluralize missions and elevate values

Redefine the relationship between philanthropy and governance

Recognize the competitive marketplace for your operating revenues

Serve your community, audiences and supporters

Move from we/them to us/us

Reorganize the museum as a producing organization

Unify the museum field

Invest in infrastructure, not new structure

Leverage existing assets

Select your creative talents effectively

Support new strategies for changing programming

Measure, document and communicate your impacts

Get real about financials

Plan your future

Embrace public mandates

Integrate the suggestions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-41342-4

1-5381-6436-1

OCLC:

1347434023