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November 5, 2012
Museum Basics, by Timothy Ambrose and Crispin Paine, 3rd edition released in 2012, published by Routledge with ICOM support. Museum Basics was written to address “the continuing need at an international level for an everyday handbook for museums with few professional staff and limited financial resources.“ In other words, the 99%. Developed by Ambrose and Paine (two British consultants, active...
November 2, 2012
By: Lauren Silberman
Imagine you’re out driving, and you’ve gotten lost. You didn’t bring a map, your GPS is on the fritz, your cell phone is dead, and there isn’t anyone around. Plus, it just started raining hard, and you need a gas station – soon. You know where you want to end up, but the journey to get there is no longer any fun.
Operating a museum can be much like the scenario above....
Imagine you’re out driving, and you’ve gotten lost. You didn’t bring a map, your GPS is on the fritz, your cell phone is dead, and there isn’t anyone around. Plus, it just started raining hard, and you need a gas station – soon. You know where you want to end up, but the journey to get there is no longer any fun.
Operating a museum can be much like the scenario above....
October 31, 2012
On behalf of the Western Museums Association Board of Directors and members, I want to thank you for your work as a volunteer for the WMA 2012 Annual Meeting Restore & Rejuvenate: Our Cultural & Natural Resources in Palm Springs. WMA’s Annual Meeting provides museum professionals an opportunity to exchange ideas and best practices, network with colleagues, and learn more about museums in...
October 29, 2012
Western Museums Association Annual Meeting:
October 9th – 12th, 2012 – Salt Lake City, Utah
Whether you drive, bike, fly, or walk to Salt Lake City next October, your participation in the WMA Annual Meeting will bless your life and career and make a great difference for your colleagues as well. In order to share your best ideas and practices with your colleagues, we invite you to submit session...
October 9th – 12th, 2012 – Salt Lake City, Utah
Whether you drive, bike, fly, or walk to Salt Lake City next October, your participation in the WMA Annual Meeting will bless your life and career and make a great difference for your colleagues as well. In order to share your best ideas and practices with your colleagues, we invite you to submit session...
October 23, 2012
Yesterday I had the pleasure of moderating my dream panel of museum executive directors in a discussion about how they have transformed their museums in recent years.
The speakers were Graham Beal, Executive Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Lori Fogarty, Director and CEO of the Oakland Museum of California, and Jay Xu, Director of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. I chose these...
The speakers were Graham Beal, Executive Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Lori Fogarty, Director and CEO of the Oakland Museum of California, and Jay Xu, Director of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. I chose these...
October 15, 2012
By: Art Wolf
For those museum folks who are driving from Utah or Nevada or other nearby states to the WMA Annual Meeting in Palm Springs, there are many ways to travel. My favorite run to Palm Springs follows US 95 south past the glorious flower blooms and giant photovoltaic arrays near Boulder City all the way to the historic mining town of Searchlight. Highway 164 goes west from there past the...
For those museum folks who are driving from Utah or Nevada or other nearby states to the WMA Annual Meeting in Palm Springs, there are many ways to travel. My favorite run to Palm Springs follows US 95 south past the glorious flower blooms and giant photovoltaic arrays near Boulder City all the way to the historic mining town of Searchlight. Highway 164 goes west from there past the...
October 15, 2012
By: Ted Greenberg
To everyone attending the upcoming Annual Meeting in Palm Springs, I would like to bring your attention to the Wanda Chin silent/live auction. We have a tremendous amount of support from the museum community as well as many of our friends and vendors who support WMA. The live auction has some fantastic items to be bid upon such as a weekend stay in Northern California’s Sea...
To everyone attending the upcoming Annual Meeting in Palm Springs, I would like to bring your attention to the Wanda Chin silent/live auction. We have a tremendous amount of support from the museum community as well as many of our friends and vendors who support WMA. The live auction has some fantastic items to be bid upon such as a weekend stay in Northern California’s Sea...
October 12, 2012
By: Renee Montgomery
Spotlight on WMA-member museum: The Petterson Museum of Intercultural Art, on the grounds of Pilgrim Place, Claremont, California
About 30 minutes out of Palm Springs -- in the SoCal “Inland Empire” are several surprising museums and collections. One of the most noteworthy is the Petterson Museum of Intercultural Art, a tranquil haven of over 10,000 cool artifacts from...
Spotlight on WMA-member museum: The Petterson Museum of Intercultural Art, on the grounds of Pilgrim Place, Claremont, California
About 30 minutes out of Palm Springs -- in the SoCal “Inland Empire” are several surprising museums and collections. One of the most noteworthy is the Petterson Museum of Intercultural Art, a tranquil haven of over 10,000 cool artifacts from...
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