Manual of Museum Management - Third Edition
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by Gail Lord
ISBN 978-1-5381-6213-2 | 368 pages + features | Rowman & Littlefield
The Manual of Museum Management, Third Edition presents a comprehensive and detailed analysis of:
- the principles of museum organization,
- the ways in which people work together to accomplish museum objectives, and
- the ways in which museums, large and small, can function most effectively.
This new edition offers updated information on the key aspects of museum practice that dominate today – everything from “flatter” organizational models, shared leadership, the efflorescence of digital practice and complexity in the field, museums and social justice, the hard work and positive rewards of community engagement and partnership, platform “balance” to alternative revenue models.
All new contemporary “snapshots” provided by practitioners and drawn from museums and galleries around the world bring the principles to life and digitally-accessed links an
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Gail Lord Pages | Edition, Year Published, Publisher
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The Author
Gail Lord is one of the world’s foremost museum planners. She is also an art critic, commentator, public speaker and co-author of six museum planning manuals and several books.Gail co-founded Lord Cultural Resources with her husband Barry Lord in 1981 with the aim to deliver specialised planning services to the museum and cultural sector.Since then, the firm has grown into one of the world’s leading cultural planning firms focused on museums, cultural districts and the creative economy. With headquarters in Toronto, it also has offices in New York, London, Mumbai and Beijing. It has now completed over 2,500 projects in 57 countries and 450 cities.
Ebook Features
All new contemporary “snapshots” provided by practitioners and drawn from museums and galleries around the world bring the principles to life and digitally-accessed links and resources (in the e-book) round out the relevance and usefulness of this third edition.
- Shares an incisive analysis of sweeping changes in the museum sector.
- Presents practical hands-on advice on writing collection policy, security plans and budget process.
- Contains a detailed Glossary specific to current museum management terms.
- Features 30 case studies by diverse museum leaders from around the world.
- Provides a selection of mission, mandate vision and values statements from leading museums.
