
Publication date:
08 September 2003Length of book:
416 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDimensions:
236x157mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9780759102934
Wondering what a museum director actually does? About to start your first director's job? Looking for guidance in starting up a museum or working with a museum director? Hugh Genoways and Lynne Ireland have taken the mystery out and put common sense and good guidance in. Learn about everything from budgets and strategic planning to human resources and facilities management to collections and programming. Genoways and Ireland also help you tackle legal documents, legal and ethical issues, and challenges for the modern museum. Case studies and exercises throughout help you review and practice what you are learning, and their extensive references will be a welcome resource.
Though the practices of US institutions are its main focus, this primer provides an initiation into many of the universal mysteries of museum administration—from budgeting to building management—and does it as painlessly as possible.