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Looking for an A-Z, one-stop, comprehensive book on museums? Wish you were able to have one of the world s leading museum consultants spend a couple of days with you, talking you through how to start a museum, how museums work, how to set up an exhibit, and more? If so, Museums 101 is the answer to your wishes. In one short volume, Mark Walhimer covers: * Essential Background, such as what is a museum, a quick history of museums, and 10 steps to starting a museum * Operational Basics, such as branding, marketing, strategic planning, governance, accessibility, and day-to-day operations * What goes on behind the scenes in a museum, ranging from finances to fundraising to art handling, exhibit management, and research * The Visitor Experience, planning a museum, designing exhibits for visitors, programming, and exhibit evaluation. Features that even the most experienced museum professionals will find useful include a community outreach checklist, a fundraising checklist, a questionnaire for people considering starting a new museum, and an exhaustive, well-organized list of online resources for museum operations. The book s contents were overseen by a six-member international advisory board. Valuable appendixes you ll use every day include a museum toolbox full of useful forms, checklists, and worksheets, and a glossary of essential museum-related terms. In addition to the printed book, Museums 101 also features a companion website exclusively for readers of the book. The website- museums101.com-features: * links to essential online resources in the museum world, * downloadable sample documents, * a glossary, * a bibliography of sources for further reading, and * photographs of more than 75 museums of all types. Museums 101 Advisory Board * Jim DeMersman, Executive Director, Museum on Main, Pleasanton, California, United States of America * David L. Godfrey, C.P.A., Allison & Godfrey, Certified Public Accountants, Norwalk, Connecticut, United States of America * Van A.
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