Positioning Your Museum as a Critical Community Asset (eBook, PDF)

A Practical Guide
Redaktion: Connolly, Robert P.; Bollwerk, Elizabeth A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this how-to guide, practitioners at cultural heritage venues share their experiences in building sustainable relationships with their geographic and demographic communities. The volume includes practical discussions of activity types that museums can employ to build relationships with their communities including education, advocacy, co-creative, while serving as a community asset and resource. Case studies include direct application of successes and lessons learned with an emphasis on small to medium sized institutions with limited staff and budgets. Highlights include: Thematic discussions on topics such as building an advocacy network between the museum and community; developing cultural heritage institutions as critical and essential components of educational systems; museum response to community expressed needs through a co-creative approach; the varied means for developing community members as cultural heritage stakeholders; and positioning the cultural heritage institution as an integral community asset.Twenty case studies directly apply the thematic discussions in small to medium-sized museum contexts. Extensive list of resources including digital links to forms, workbooks, and guides produced in the case studies.A list of national organizations and an extensive bibliography on community museum engagement. Specifically addressed to smaller institutions with limited budgets and limited or no full-time staff, the volume includes cost-effective projects that can be completed for $1,500 or less.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765176771
• Artikelnr.: 74844700

Autorenporträt

Robert Connolly is active in the museum field as an independent consultant and President of the Advocates for the Poverty Point World Heritage Site. He has over 25 years of experience in museums and community engagement most recently as an Associate Professor in the Museum Studies program at the University of Memphis and the Director of the C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa. His PhD is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996. Elizabeth A. Bollwerk is currently an Archaeological Analyst for the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS, www.daacs.org) at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation based at Monticello. She received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2012.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction- Robert P. Connolly and Elizabeth A. Bollwerk
Part 1 - Communities Making Meaning in Museum Education - Jody Stokes Casey
Case Studies
Developing High School Curriculum: The C.H. Nash Museum and Freedom Prep
Charter School Project - Nur Abdalla and Lyndsey PenderCreating a Museum in
a School: Cultural Heritage in Nivín, Perú- Gustavo Valencia Tello and
Elizabeth Cruzado Meeting Teacher Needs: Digital Collections in the
Classroom - Shana CrossonUsing Postcard Collections as a Primary Resource
in the Classroom - Brian FailingWords, Stone, Earth, and Paint: Using
Creative Writing to Engage a Community with Its Museum - Mary Anna
EvansPart 2 - The Value of Open(ing) Authority and Participatory Frameworks
for Museums - Elizabeth A. Bollwerk
Case Studies
Oral History For, About, and By a Local Community: Co-Creation in the
Peruvian Highlands - Elizabeth Cruzado and Leodan Alejo ValerioWorking with
a Private Collector to Strengthen Women's History: Sewall-Belmont House &
Museum - Rebecca Price.Reconnecting a University Museum Collection with
Hopi Farmers through an Undergraduate Class- Lisa Young and Susan
SekaquaptewaOur Stories, Our Places: Centering the Community as Narrative
Voice in the Reinterpretation of an African American Historic Site -
Porchia MoorePart 3 - Advocacy for Heritage Professionals During the Crisis
and the Calm - Sarah E. Miller
Case Studies
Making Advocacy Everyone's Priority - Ember FarberImpact Statements -
Demonstrating a Museum's Public Value - Robert P. ConnollySmall Fish, Big
Pond: How to Effectively Advocate in Your Community - Melissa PrycerPart 4
- Museums Engaging With People As A Community Resource - Robert P. Connolly
Case Studies
Taking Steps to Make a Museum Special Needs Friendly - Colleen McCartney
Incorporating Descendent Community Voices: The Whitney Plantation - Ashley
RogersHow Community Input Can Shape a Mission: The Proposed Eggleston
Museum - Allison HennieBuilding a Community History at the University of
the West Indies Museum - Suzanne Francis-BrownTelling Our Town's History:
The Muscatine History and Industry Center - Mary WildermuthWorking to
Address Community Needs: The Missouri History Museum - Melanie AdamsPart 5
- Engaging User Audiences in the Digital Landscape - Brigitte Billedeaux
and Jennifer Schnabel
Case Studies
Creating a Digital Library for Community Access: A. Schwab on Beale Street
- Brigitte BilledeauxSeparating the Glitz from the Practical in Social
Media at the National Underground Railroad Museum - Jamie Glavic and Assia
JohnsonHow a Simple, Inexpensive Podcast Engaged an Entire Community: Chick
History, Inc - Rebecca PriceRecording the Neglected Sports Stories From the
Backside - Holly SolisSmall Museum Website Creation with a Limited Staff
and Budget: The Arden Craft Shop Museum - Kelsey RansickPart 6 - Resources