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Positioning Your Museum as a Critical Community Asset: A Practical Guide
Robert P. Connolly
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Description for Positioning Your Museum as a Critical Community Asset: A Practical Guide
Paperback. Editor(s): Connolly, Robert P.; Bollwerk, Elizabeth A. Series: American Association for State & Local History. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: GL; GM; KJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 255 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
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 focuses on the practicalities of starting and sustaining educational, advocational, digital and co-creative activities and programs. The thematic essays and case studies discuss strategies and actions museums can employ to build relationships with their communities, while serving as a community asset and resource. Case studies include candid discussions of successes, challenges, and lessons learned with an emphasis on small-to medium-sized institutions with limited staff and budgets.
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 focuses on the practicalities of starting and sustaining educational, advocational, digital and co-creative activities and programs. The thematic essays and case studies discuss strategies and actions museums can employ to build relationships with their communities, while serving as a community asset and resource. Case studies include candid discussions of successes, challenges, and lessons learned with an emphasis on small-to medium-sized institutions with limited staff and budgets.
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
American Association for State & Local History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442275706
SKU
V9781442275706
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99-13
About Robert P. Connolly
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.
Reviews for Positioning Your Museum as a Critical Community Asset: A Practical Guide
Happily, this volume is not yet one more call for museums to engage with the communities they serve -as its editors note, that would be nothing new. Rather, the book is a how-to guide, illustrated with case studies drawn from a wide variety of contexts, and including a digital resource guide (linked to ancillary online content) compiled by the book's contributors. This volume demonstrates how reciprocal, mutually empowered community engagement is a profoundly co-creative process which benefits both communities and the museums which serve them.
Carol McDavid, Executive Director, Community Archaeology Research Institute, Inc. Positioning Your Museum as a Critical Community Asset: A Practical Guide is a major contribution to studies about community engagement and participatory strategies in museums. Encompassing examples from more than two dozen contributors, the book is a valuable manual of tested and inexpensive bottom-up or co-creation approaches. This is a must-read not just for museum professionals but also for everyone in the critical museum studies field.
Helaine Silverman, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois (Urbana)
Carol McDavid, Executive Director, Community Archaeology Research Institute, Inc. Positioning Your Museum as a Critical Community Asset: A Practical Guide is a major contribution to studies about community engagement and participatory strategies in museums. Encompassing examples from more than two dozen contributors, the book is a valuable manual of tested and inexpensive bottom-up or co-creation approaches. This is a must-read not just for museum professionals but also for everyone in the critical museum studies field.
Helaine Silverman, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois (Urbana)