The classic text on how to build successful partnerships between museums and schools. An Alliance of Spirit: Museum and School Partnerships, edited by Kim Fortney and Beverly Sheppard, brings together the latest thinking and instructive case studies on how museums and schools can better understand each other's goals as they work together to provide school children the most inspiring educational experience possible inside the museum. Includes special "Putting It Into Practice" sections of practical advice for teachers and museum educators. Published in cooperation with EdCom, the Educator's Committee of the American Association of Museums.

An Alliance of Spirit: Museum & School Partnerships

Education & Teaching

Kim Fortney

Beverly Sheppard

Schools & Teaching

American Association of Museums

A "Feejee mermaid," the skeletal remains of a "wooly mammoth," and a "cabinet of learned turkies which will dance to music," were attractions at Baltimore’s Peale Museum in the early 1800s. As the nation’s first museum directors, Charles Wilson Peale, and his sons Rembrandt and Rubens, laid the foundation of the modern American museum.

Mermaids, Mummies, and Mastodons: The Emergence of the American Museum (Maryland Historical Society)

History

Alderson, William T.

Americas

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

Business & Money

Industries

A book for all museum professionals, from the seasoned director to the student. Nine case studies of how museums have managed major change, and the effect such change has had on staff. Written from personal experience by senior staff from each museum, topics range from natural disaster to the death of a director, change in governance structure, merger, and fiscal collapse at institutions such as The New-York Historical Society, The Charleston (S.C.) Museum, and The Children's Museum, Boston. With an introduction by psychologists Rina Elieli and Laurence J. Gould. Bibliography and index included.

Institutional Trauma: Major Change in Museums and Its Effect on Staff

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

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

Hamilton-Sperr, Portia

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

A well-crafted mission statement represents the unique aspects of a museum and its community and prepares the museum to undertake known and as yet unknown challenges without compromise. Twenty top museum professionals share their memorable experiences and bring to life the principles and techniques for attaining a mission statement that inspires and energizes. This book provides step-by-step guidance in writing or evaluating a museum mission statement and how to use it effectively. Generously supplemented with 79 outstanding mission statements from a wide variety of museums, the report is useful to any size or type museum.

Museum Mission Statements: Building a Distinct Identity

Experts discuss the philosophy, use, and misuse of media - the confluence of words, images and sounds primarily through film, video and interactive computer technology - both from within the museum professional's perspective and from the media producer's viewpoint. Specific examples help directors, curators, designers, producers and other choose media options for their own institution.

The Virtual and the Real: Media in the Museum

Adopted in November 1993 and revised in 1999 by the AAM Board of Directors, this code provides a framework for developing an institution's own code of ethics and reflects the current, generally understood standards of the museum field. Issues covered include governance, collections, programs, and promulgation. Also available in Spanish.

Code of Ethics for Museums

American Association of Museums Staff

Don't be afraid of the title! The Digital Museum is not for techies, but for anyone who cares about the future of museums and the impact of technology on our lives and institutions. The revolution in communications technology has created a landscape that was inconceivable a generation ago. How will the 21st century museum respond? Twenty-five authors, leading thinkers in the fields of technology and museums, lead us through this exciting and rapidly changing terrain, exploring the impact of new technology on all aspects of museum operations, from interpretation to conservation. Topics range from the use of handheld devices, websites and digital games to open source technology and real-time learning. The book highlights how new technologies can enhance the traditional museum mission while also allowing museums to become laboratories for the tools of digital discourse. Introduction by author and filmmaker Selma Thomas.

The Digital Museum: A Think Guide

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