American Alliance Of Museums imprint: 11 books

by Gail Dexter Lord, Ngaire Blankenberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016

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.Thirteen...

Museums in a Global Context

National Identity, International Understanding

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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

Museums reflect a nation's character, as well as define it. Museums around the world have been shaped by globalization, and in turn have shaped a global public's understanding of local, regional, or national identity. Essayists consider the politics of museum interpretation in the global context,...

A Life in Museums

Managing Your Museum Career

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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012

Whether you're an experienced leader, a mid-career professional hoping for a promotion, or a recent grad applying for your first internship, A Life in Museums: Managing Your Museum Career is the guide you need—full of sound advice, practical tips, and illuminating personal stories that span the...

Things Great and Small

Collections Management Policies

by John E. Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

Care of the collections is a core responsibility for all museums and related cultural institutions. The foundation of collections care and stewardship is good collections management policies. This revised edition of Things Great and Small is a comprehensive resource for preparing and implementing...

Designing for Empathy

Perspectives on the Museum Experience

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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019

Designing for Empathy is a volume of twenty-three essays contributed by multidisciplinary experts, collectively exploring the state of empathy for its design elements that might lead to positive behavior change and a paradigm shift towards unifying, compassionate worldviews and actions. As...

Teaching the Museum

Careers in Museum Education

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

Education departments in museums of all kinds serve millions of students and adult learners every year using the objects and other resources of the museum. Teaching the Museum offers insights, anecdotes, and valuable advice on how to get started and how to succeed in this rapidly growing field. Twenty...
by Sharon Vatsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018

During the course of an interactive museum tour a skilled educator will be able to elicit multiple responses and keep the conversation moving toward new discoveries, but no matter how competent the educator, there will always be some participants who enthusiastically contribute their ideas to the...

Art & Energy

How Culture Changes

by Barry Lord
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

In Art & Energy, Barry Lord argues that human creativity is deeply linked to the resources available on Earth for our survival. From our ancient mastery of fire through our exploitation of coal, oil, and gas, to the development of today's renewable energy sources, each new source of energy fundamentally...

The Quality Instinct

Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye

by Maxwell L. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

How do we judge what is good in art? Or more to the controversial point, can we judge art? Acclaimed museum director Maxwell Anderson, newly named Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, enters the fray with The Quality Instinct. Part personal memoir, part thinking person's guide to...

Exhibitions

Concept, Planning and Design

by Tom Klobe
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012

Tom Klobe, founding director of the University of Hawai'i Art Gallery and emeritus professor, draws upon three decades of award-winning design work to produce a definitive text on what makes for compelling and unforgettable museum exhibitions. Exhibitions: Concept, Planning and Design presents the...

From The Holy Land To Graceland

Sacred People, Places and Things In Our Lives

by Gary Vikan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Graceland is much more than a wildly popular historic house and tourist destination associated with a famous entertainer, and Elvis Presley is much more than the King of Rock ‘n' Roll. As former Walters Art Museum director and medievalist Gary Vikan shows us in his fascinating new book, Graceland,...
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