Museums 101

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.