This assessment of American museums focuses on why museums are important to our culture, what they can contribute to the quality of human experience, and their overall purpose. Leaders in the museum community explore and identify trends affecting the future of museums and describe the opportunities and responsibilities facing museums in the 21st century.

Museums for a New Century: A Report of the Commission on Museums for a New Century

Business & Money

American Alliance of Museums

Industries

American Alliance Of Museums

Continuing donations of appreciated property to museums has become increasingly difficult amid constant tax reform. This booklet highlights the 1984 Tax Reform Act, the last significant change in valuation requirements, and covers requirements for donors and museums as recipients. It includes IRS Tax Forms 8282 and 8283. Updated with information on recent tax changes, including the 1993 change regarding appreciated property.

Gifts of Property: A Guide for Donors and Museums

Finance

This landmark report affirms the contributions museums make to the educational needs of the nation. The report helps museums define how well they are carrying out their educational mission and serving the public. The principles are accompanied by specific recommendations, which museums can implement to meet challenges as the stewards of educational excellence and equity.

Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums

Model programs in 19 American museums offer insights as to how institutions are dealing successfully with issues of accessibility, making adjustments to policy, programs, and facilities in order to reach out to people with disabilities and older adults. This richly illustrated book with its extensive bibliography is an important resource for all museums following the landmark legislation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

The Accessible Museum: Model Programs of Accessibility for Disabled and Older People

Arts & Photography

This final report describes the goals, pilot partnerships, and results of the Museums in the Life of a City Initiative. This project was established to enhance the appreciation of cultural diversity by building partnerships between museums and communities.

Museums in the Life of a City: Strategies for Community Partnerships

Hamilton-Sperr, Portia

Developed by the American Association of Museums with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, this pamphlet explores the most important responsibility of all museums-collections care. More than 65 curators, registrars, and conservators discuss how to improve environmental collections in museums, manage inventory, register objects, and enhance public awareness of museum collection.

Caring For Collections: Strategies for Conservation, Maintenance and Documentation

This landmark publication identifies strategies for determining the extent and content of museum learning and the visitor experience. Takes into account prior knowledge and experience; subsequent, reinforcing experiences; motivation and attitudes; culture and background; social mediation; design and representation; and the physical setting. Includes possible measurement techniques for the museum context, and recommendations for future research in museum training.

Public Institutions for Personal Learning: Establishing a Research Agenda

Finally! Standards for signs and labels that address the needs of wheelchair users and the visually impaired visitor. Copious photographs, diagrams, and sample labels for orientation signs, directional signs, and gallery labels demonstrate that what makes a label accessible also makes it more effective for all museum visitors. The manual also provides standards for typesize, contrast, and installation, as well as a glossary.

Standards Manual for Signs and Labels

Graphic Design

Museum Studies Programs: Guide to Evaluation provides prospective students with the necessary tools to conduct their own individually tailored analysis of how well a museum studies program will meet their particular needs. It is also designed to provide museum studies programs with solid guidelines for self-assessment and peer review.

Museum Studies Programs: Guide to Evaluation

Turn your conservation needs assessment into a long-range plan! This publication leads you through the process of writing a long-range preservation plan for collections care. Intended for museums, historical societies, libraries, and archives that have had a conservation-needs assessment and seek assistance in developing a written plan, this step-by-step guide lessens the need for an outside consultant. The workbook contains guidelines and worksheets for drafting a plan, a checklist to follow throughout the process, information on updating and marketing the plan once it is written, and a sample plan. Published in an easy-to-manage loose-leaf notebook, the worksheets can be removed and photocopied. The worksheets also are supplied on an IBM-compatible floppy disk included in the workbook.

Preservation Planning: Guidelines for Writing a Long-Range Plan

Ogden, Sherelyn

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