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Positioning Your Museum as a Critical Community Asset
eBook - A Practical Guide, American Association for State and Local History
ISBN/EAN: 9781442275713
Umbreit-Nr.: 9964860
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 172 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 10.11.2016
Auflage: 1/2016
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span><span><br>In this how-to guide, practitioners at cultural heritage venues share their experiences in building sustainable relationships with their geographic and demographic communities. The volume includes practical discussions of activity types that museums can employ to build relationships with their communities including education, advocacy, co-creative, while serving as a community asset and resource. Case studies include direct application of successes and lessons learned with an emphasis on small to medium sized institutions with limited staff and budgets.<br><br>Highlights include:</span></span><br><ul><li><span>Thematic discussions on topics such as building an advocacy network between the museum and community; developing cultural heritage institutions as critical and essential components of educational systems; museum response to community expressed needs through a co-creative approach; the varied means for developing community members as cultural heritage stakeholders; and positioning the cultural heritage institution as an integral community asset.</span></li><li><span>Twenty case studies directly apply the thematic discussions in small to medium-sized museum contexts.</span></li><li><span>Extensive list of resources including digital links to forms, workbooks, and guides produced in the case studies.</span></li><li><span>A list of national organizations and an extensive bibliography on community museum engagement.</span></li></ul><span><span><br>Specifically addressed to smaller institutions with limited budgets and limited or no full-time staff, the volume includes cost-effective projects that can be completed for $1,500 or less.</span></span>
- Kurztext
- <span><span>In this how-to guide, practitioners at cultural heritage venues share their experiences in building sustainable relationships with their geographic and demographic communities. The volume focuses on the practicalities of starting and sustaining educational, advocational, digital and co-creative activities and programs. The thematic essays and case studies discuss strategies and actions museums can employ to build relationships with their communities, while serving as a community asset and resource. Case studies include candid discussions of successes, challenges, and lessons learned with an emphasis on small-to medium-sized institutions with limited staff and budgets.</span></span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span><span>Robert Connolly</span><span> is active in the museum field as an independent consultant and President of the Advocates for the Poverty Point World Heritage Site. He has over 25 years of experience in museums and community engagement most recently as an Associate Professor in the Museum Studies program at the University of Memphis and the Director of the C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa. His PhD is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996.<br><br></span><span>Elizabeth A. Bollwerk</span><span> is currently an Archaeological Analyst for the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS, www.daacs.org) at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation based at Monticello. She received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2012.</span></span>