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

Pilgrim, Dianne

Arts & Photography

Museum educators and school teachers met for three workshops on establishing closer working relations between schools and museums. Each partner's expectations of the other, learning theories in museums, field trips, outreach projects, community as classroom, and cultural diversity constitute the core contents of the book. An appendix includes an array of successful program materials used by museums in Pennsylvania.

Building Museum and School Partnerships

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

As an extension of Museums in the Life of a City, this report has a broadened, global perspective applicable for any institution. We recommend the purchase of both items for a complete package.

Museums in the Social and Economic Life of a City

Emerging technology in the field of telecommunications—the Internet and related applications—affects the way we receive and transmit information of all kinds. How will these new technologies affect museums' missions, operations, and even definitions, both now and in the near future? With chapters on online networks, digitization of collections, cultural intellectual property, public access, finance, management, and more, experts in the fields of museums and communications offer their analyses of the emerging information technology and the opportunities and challenges these changes present for museums.

The Wired Museum: Emerging Technology and Changing Paradigms

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