Museum Administration: An Introduction

by Hugh H. Genoways

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.

Genres: Museums, Museology, Art, Nonfiction, Grad School

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Maggie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Other than informing a museum professional what the various aspects of museum administration are and whetting the appetite to dive deeper into those topics, this textbook is COMPLETELY out of date with most of the statistics dated from the mid 90s when "the World Wide Web" and "Electronic Mail" were novelties. Some stats were taken from the 2000 census, but with the 2010 census data now available, someone PLEASE write a newer addition that is relevant to todays world.

This is my textbook for a class this fall. Yikes.

[Cira · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sort of informative, but extremely dry and has a whiny undertone. Many things are common knowledge. Would have preferred more case studies.