Museums 101

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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: Introduction: The Museum Culture What is a Museum? A Quick History of Museums 10 Steps to Starting a Museum Museum Branding Museum Marketing Museum Strategic Planning Museum Governance Museum Feasibility Studies Museum Finances Museum Fundraising Collections Art Handling The "Green Museum" Exhibition Project Management Exhibition Development / Curation Museum Research (Art, Science & History) Museum Programming (Education) Museum Master Planning - (Facility Planning) Exhibition Design & Fabrication Programming & Exhibition Evaluation What is the Future of Museums ?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. Valuable appendices you’ll use every day include a museum toolbox full of useful forms, checklists, and worksheets, and a glossary of essential museum-related terms. All this is supplemented by an awesome, regularly updated website geared to the book’s layout.