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. | Museums 101 by Mark Walhimer, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters