John W. Jacobsen

Measuring Museum Impact and Performance (eBook, PDF)

Theory and Practice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Based on extensive research and decades of experience, museum analyst and planner John W. Jacobsen provides both the theoretical underpinnings and the operational pragmatics of measuring any museum's intentional impact and performance by using 1,025 indicators drawn from 51 expert sources. Measuring Museum Impact and Performance: Theory and Practice provides museum professionals internationally with a clear, very open process that will improve their museum's value and performance by selecting indicators that monitor whether they are realizing their desired public, private, personal and institutional values. The book is not prescriptive, but liberating, as the framework recognizes that each museum needs to decide on its own purposes and priorities. The book is organized in two parts: "Part 1: Theory" is scholarly and builds on the museum field's rich literature; and "Part 2: Practice" provides step-by-step methods for any museum to set up its own dashboard of prioritized impact and performance indicators. Substantive attachments include: the list of the 51 source documents for the MIIP indicators; definitions of terms and data fields; a long list of precedented museum impacts; measurement formulas and worksheet templates, filled in for a sample museum; and the MIIP 1.0 database available online. Readers will get the following benefits: A literature review of prior work on measuring museum valueAn analysis of eleven well-established evaluation frameworks that synthesize into a revolutionary, yet practical, Museum Theory of ActionA robust and searchable menu of 1,025 existing and aspirational indicators (the MIIP 1.0 database) that you can use to start your own selectionAn analysis of the MIIP database using the Theory of Action that reveals 14 areas of potential museum impacts and benefitsA process to select and prioritize your museum's intentional purposes and desired impactsA process to determine, measure and compare your museum's key performance indicators (KPIs) A process to set-up and conduct peer museum comparisonsProcedures and examples of how to capture and report data used in your selected indicatorsPrinciples for using indicator data to inform museum management decisions

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216258179
• Artikelnr.: 74832635

Autorenporträt

John W. Jacobsen led museum analysis and planning for White Oak Associates, Inc. for over forty years and over a hundred museums through hundreds of commissions. Projects include eighteen museums representing over a billion dollars of actual and anticipated investment in new and expanding museums internationally. In the Eighties, he was associate director of the Museum of Science in Boston. In 1988, the Museum served 2.2 million visitors, an unsurpassed record. White Oak integrated operating economics with creative concepts in its plans. Mr. Jacobsen's BA and MFA are from Yale University. Long committed to the museum field, Jacobsen is the founder of the Museum Film Network ('85), the Planetarium Show Network ('88), the Ocean Film Network ('92), AAM's Professional Committee on Green Museums (PIC Green '08) and of the Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS 1.0 '11). With Ms. Jeanie Stahl, Mr. Jacobsen formed the White Oak Institute in 2007, a non-profit dedicated to research-based museum innovation, with completed awards and contracts with the NSF, the IMLS, the AAM and the ACM to develop field-wide standards and data collection fields. Mr. Jacobsen's extensive writings and presentations on museum topics have appeared in Curator, Museum Management and Curatorship, Informal Learning Review and at AAM, ASTC, ACM and other conferences. He is the author of Measuring Museum Impact and Performance (2016) and editor and co-author of The Museum Manager's Compendium (2017), both published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Worksheets
Foreword by Ford W. Bell, DVM, President & CEO (retired) American Alliance
of Museums
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Theory: How and why do museums do what they do?
Chapter 1: Finding the Museum Theory of Action
Chapter 2: Identifying Potential Museum Impacts
Chapter 3: Measuring Impact
Part 2: Practice: How do you measure your museum's impact and performance?
Chapter 4: Shift from Theory to Practice
Chapter 5: Prioritize your Museum's Purposes and Impacts
Chapter 6: Determine your Museum's Performance Metrics
Chapter 7: Compare your Museum to your Peers
Summary
Chapter 8: Report Changes in Your Impact and Performance
Chapter 9: Summary and Future Potentials
Appendixes
Appendix A: Definitions and Assumptions
Appendix B: Source Documents for MIIP 1.0
Appendix C: Potential Museum Impacts: Selected Examples
Appendix D: Measurement Formulas and Worksheet Templates
Appendix E: Worksheets: Blanks and Versions by the Sample Museum
Index
About the Author