Museums 101

<span><span>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, </span><span>Museums 101</span><span> is the answer to your wishes.</span></span> <br> <span><span><br>In one short volume, Mark Walhimer covers:</span></span> <br> <span><span>• Essential Background, such as what is a museum, a quick history of museums, and 10 steps to starting a museum</span></span> <br> <span><span>• Operational Basics, such as branding, marketing, strategic planning, governance, accessibility, and day-to-day operations</span></span> <br> <span><span>• What goes on behind the scenes in a museum, ranging from finances to fundraising to art handling, exhibit management, and research</span></span> <br> <span><span>• The Visitor Experience, planning a museum, designing exhibits for visitors, programming, and exhibit evaluation.</span></span> <br> <br> <span><span>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. <br><br>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, </span><span>Museums 101</span><span> also features a companion website exclusively for readers of the book. The website— museums101.com—features:</span></span> <br> <br> <span><span>• links to essential online resources in the museum world,</span></span> <br> <span><span>• downloadable sample documents,</span></span> <br> <span><span>• a glossary,</span></span> <br> <span><span>• a bibliography of sources for further reading, and</span></span> <br> <span><span>• photographs of more than 75 museums of all types. </span></span> <br> <span><span><br></span></span> <br> <span><span>Museums 101 </span><span>Advisory Board</span></span> <br> <span><span>• Jim DeMersman, Executive Director, Museum on Main, Pleasanton, California,</span></span> <br> <span><span>United States of America</span></span> <br> <span><span>• David L. Godfrey, C.P.A., Allison &amp; Godfrey, Certified Public Accountants,</span></span> <br> <span><span>Norwalk, Connecticut, United States of America</span></span> <br> <span><span>• Van A. Romans, President, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History,</span></span> <br> <span><span>Fort Worth, Texas, and Board of Trustees, American Alliance of Museums,</span></span> <br> <span><span>United States of America</span></span> <br> <span><span>• Sergey Solovyev, Ph.D., Department of Greek &amp; Roman Antiquities, The</span></span> <br> <span><span>State Hermitage Museum, Russia</span></span> <br> <span><span>• Alison Spence, Exhibitions and Loans Registrar, National Museum of Australia,</span></span> <br> <span><span>Canberra ACT, Australia</span></span> <br> <span><span>• Audrey Vermette, Director of Programs and Public Affairs, Canadian Museums</span></span> <br> <span><span>Association, Ontario, Canada</span></span>