This unique planning guide describes the different types of corporate museum-like facilities located in the United States and around the world. It provides essential information for anyone planning, starting up, or operating a museum, gallery, or visitor center. This how-to reference on the planning and administration of corporate museums or centers is written by Victor Danilov as a companion volume to his Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers: A Directory, published by Greenwood Press in August 1991. This practical guide analyzes the various types of corporate museum-like facilities and describes their development; points to key factors to consider in planning and establishing museums, galleries, and visitor centers; and discusses their operation and reasons for their success or failure. This unusual reference is nicely illustrated and offers both a bibliography and an index.
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This planning guide describes the different types of corporate museum-like facilities located in the United States and around the world, and provides information for anyone planning, starting up or operating a museum, gallery or visitor centre.
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Preface Types of Corporate Museum-like Facilities Corporate Museums and Exhibit Halls Corporate Art Museums, Galleries, and Sculpture Gardens Corporate Visitor and Information Centers Other Corporate Exhibit Approaches Corporate Startup Decisions The Planning Process Implementing the Decision Operating the Facility Collections, Exhibits, and Programs Managing the Operation Measuring Success or Failure Selected Bibliography Index
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This practical planning guide describes the different types of corporate museum-like facilities located in the United States and around the world. It provides essential information for anyone planning, starting up, or operating a museum, gallery, or visitor center.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780313276576
Publisert
1991-11-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Greenwood Press
Vekt
510 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
224

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Biographical note

VICTOR J. DANILOV, former President and Director of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, directs the Museum Management Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including America's Science Museums (Greenwood Press, 1990) and this planning guide's companion volume, Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers: A Directory (Greenwood, 1991).