The Effective Museum: Rethinking Museum Practices to Increase Impact

The Effective Museum: Rethinking Museum Practices to Increase Impact offers practical suggestions for achieving museums' intentional purposes, including revising conceptual frameworks, revitalizing audiences and supporters, reorganizing museums, reinvesting in resources, repositioning programming, and restoring management basics. The book provides generalized statements of problems, new suggestions, likely resistance, potential impacts and benefits, and an implementation process. The suggestions vary in form and attitude, encouraging readers to think about trying them out.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 168 pages
Publication date: 30 September 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

The Effective Museum: Rethinking Museum Practices to Increase Impact offers practical guidance for achieving museums' intended goals. By revising conceptual frameworks, revitalizing audiences and supporters, reorganizing museums, reinvesting in resources, repositioning programming, and restoring management basics, this book aims to help museums rethink key practices. The suggestions, while diverse, share definitions, frameworks, and a unifying voice and structure. Each chapter includes a generalized statement of a problem, new suggestions implementable in many museums, likely resistance, potential impacts and benefits, and the start of an implementation process. The suggestions range from strategies to lists of options or research questions to implementation steps. The underlying principle is a new way of thinking about museum practices, empowering readers to build their own learning and legacy.

Weight: 417g
Dimension: 256 x 176 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538164358