Partnership Power (eBook)

Essential Museum Strategies for Today's Networked World

Marsha L. Semmel (Autor)

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2019
388 Seiten
American Alliance of Museums (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0315-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume makes the case for the “why” and the “how” of museum partnerships in today’s hyper-connected and networked world. It features candid interviews with national museum, philanthropic, and nonprofit leaders and case studies of effective partnerships from museums of different disciplines and sizes.

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Partnership Power examines museum-related partnerships, collaborations, and networks within today's dynamic, ever-changing environment. With todays greater emphasis is placed on measurable community impact and leveraging technology for greater reach and connection on significant social challenges, partnerships have become increasingly important. Through perspectives from other, related sectors, including libraries and other nonprofits; current museum case studies from a broad and diverse spectrum of museum types (history, children's, art, science, and ethnic); and proven tools, tips, and resources, Partnership Power: Essential Museum Strategies for Today's Networked World serves as an invaluable primer for museums and museum professionals -- wanting to create and sustain effective partnerships and collaborations. The volume helps solve the partnership puzzle, focusing on the essential attributes of sustainable and relevant collaborations, within communities, states, and nationally, including examples of broader multi-institutional networks that are increasingly important to maintain relevance in this hyper-connected world. It contains words of wisdom from museum leaders, funders, community organizers, and researchersboth industry experts and newcomers--on what authentic partnership means, how partnerships evolve, the benefits of partnerships as well as the challenges they present. How does a museum determine and select a viable partner or partners? What happens when a partnership encounters the inevitable pitfalls and barriers? When should you move away from a partnership? How does one evaluate a partnership's success or failure?The book also looks inside the museum: the key issues of institutional culture, staff skills and competencies, managing financial resources, marketing the partnership, and working with boards that often emerge in the context of partnership development and management?

Autor

Marsha Semmel is a national museum leader who has served in senior executive positions at the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. She has been the President and CEO of two museums, Conner Prairie and the Women of the West Museum. Semmel has been senior advisor to the Noyce Foundation’s Noyce Leadership Institute, a global program for science and technology center leaders. She is currently on the faculty of the Bank Street College of Education’s graduate program in museum leadership and serves as senior advisor to the Center for Science and Civic Engagement, a national network of academic and informal learning organizations based at the State University of New York Stony Brook.

Inhalt

PART I: Partnership Power: Essential Museum Strategies for Today’s Networked World Introduction Marsha L. SemmelPART II: Partnership PerspectivesChapter 1: My Partnership Journey Marsha L. SemmelChapter 2: From a Museum Basement to a City of Learning: Pittsburgh’s Remake Learning Network Gregg BehrChapter 3: Partnerships as the Great Good PlaceElyse Eidman-Aadahl Chapter 4: Partnerships, Not Mergers Peter Ellsworth Chapter 5: Us Versus Them: How to Bridge Boundaries to Discover New Partnership Frontiers Chris ErnstChapter 6: Partnering with the Public John Falk Chapter 7: Meaningful Partnerships and the Eight “Ates” Kate Goodall Chapter 8: Why Museums Must Turn Outward to Find the Right Partners Richard C. HarwoodChapter 9: Mapping Collaborations David La Piana and Melissa Mendes Campos Chapter 10: Growing a Strategic Partnership Mindset within a New Museum Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Auntaneshia Staveloz, Allison Prabhu, Nicole Bryner, and Marion McGeeChapter 11: Partnerships for STEM Beyond the School Day Ronald L. Ottinger and Cary SneiderChapter 12: Museums Can Take a Lead in Cultivating Vibrant Learning Ecosystems Katherine PrinceChapter 13: Strategic Partnership as Organizational Practice: The Hive NYC Learning Network Raphael SantoChapter 14: Creating the People’s University Marshal Semmel, based on interviews with Felton Thomas, Jr.PART III: Partnership ProfilesChapter 15: From “They” to “We”: A Study in Collaboration Balboa Park Cultural Partnership Team under leadership of Peter Comiskey, Edited by Kristen MihalkoChapter 16: Partnering in Digital Resource Creation Nik Honeysett,Chapter 17: In Pursuit of Freedom: A Partnership Grows in Brooklyn Deborah SchwartzChapter 18: Habla Espanol? Tammie KahnChapter 19: Partnerships in Transforming a Neighborhood and Learning Landscape Jane Werner and Suzanne McCaffreyChapter 20: A Museum Turns Outward: Listening and Learning Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Joe Hastings and Kristen LeighChapter 21: Growing and Evolving a Network of Small Cultural Organizations Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Althemese Barnes, Phyllis Ford, and Audrey DavisChapter 22: Be Our Guest! The GW Model for Programming Museums John WetenhallChapter 23: Catalyzing Neighborhood Revitalization Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Marvin Pinkert and Lindsey ThompsonChapter 24: An Institutional Commitment to a New Model of Community Collaboration Elisabeth Callahan and Karleen GardnerChapter 25: Partnership 3.0: The Case of OMSI Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Nancy Stueber, Marcie Benne, Lauren Moreno, and Kyrie KellettChapter 26: Growing the “Experiment Station” through New Partnerships Marsha Semmel, based on interviews with Dorothy Kosinski and Suzanne WrighPART IV: Tools, Tips, and ResourcesChapter 27: Resources for Partnerships and NetworksMarsha L. Semmel

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: American Alliance of Museums
• Zusatzinfo: 28 Illustrations including: - 9 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs; - 1 Tables; - 18 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: American Alliance of Museums • Museums • Museum Strategies • Museum Studies • Networking • Partnership • Partnership Principles
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-0315-X / 153810315X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-0315-9 / 9781538103159