Mission Matters (eBook)

Relevance and Museums in the 21st Century

Gail Anderson (Autor)

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2019
206 Seiten
American Alliance of Museums (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0349-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book provides a fresh and practical look on mission statements and strategic thinking. Anderson lays out the importance of mission statements while providing useful examples of vision, values, and other components typically a part of a museum’s strategic framework. This book takes the discussion to the present and into the future.

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Mission Matters sheds a fresh light on how to envision relevant and impactful museums. Anderson takes the understanding of mission relevance to a new level. The premise of the book reflects external contemporary realities and the need for museums to better position themselves as leaders and change agents in the greater landscape and diversity of people.. Anderson illustrates her points with numerous examples from the US and around the world. Features include essays by David Fleming from the UK who tackles the importance of mission and social issues, and Charmaine Jefferson who frames the complexities of cultural competence in the 21st century. Twenty museum leaders each share their institution's story of transformative change informed by reframing their mission. Anderson's methodology for the book, the Mission Alignment Framework, helps reference the thinking about missions and the subsequent changes within museums as they redirect their work. Eighty US and international mission statements reveal the range of museums disciplines and demographics from urban and rural , and styles of mission all illustrating relevance to their unique settings, institutional capacity, resources, and purpose. Complementing these examples are guidelines about how to rethink mission, a questioning strategy based on the Mission Alignment Framework, and, a range of useful tools from museums and leading thinkers in the field.Mission Matters is useful to a wide range of readers and users from trustees to directors to staff from a wide range of museums regardless of size and stage of development and maturity. The book is an easily accessible reference for strategic planning, conversations about relevance and missions, and museums considering the reinvention of their museum for greater impact.

Autor

Gail Anderson has dedicated much of her time over her 40+ year career researching, amassing and sharing resources and new ideas to advance the museum field. With all the pressures that museum leaders face on a daily basis, her goal has been to make resources easily available with practical and accessible approaches ad tools. Anderson, president of Gail Anderson & Associates (GA&A) works with museum leaders facilitating institutional transformation, building institutional and leadership capacity, and expanding community and global relevance. GA&A works with museums on strategic planning, organizational restructuring, institutional assessment and development, board development, as well as individual coaching. She has worked with more than 65+ clients and completed over 105+ projects, the majority of which are repeat clientele speaking to long-term relationships.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Mission MattersChapter 2: Relevance in the 21st Century Museum Introduction by Gail AndersonMissions and the 21st Century Museum -- A Perspective by David Fleming, Ph.D. Mission Relevance and Cultural Competency: Inescapable Partners for the Future by Charmaine Jefferson Chapter 3: Qualities of a Mission StatementChapter 4: Mission Alignment FrameworkChapter 5: Twenty Perspectives from Museum Leaders Introduction by Gail AndersonAbbe Museum by Cinnamon Catlin-LegutkoAnchorage Museum by Julie DeckerBurke Museum of Natural History and Culture by Julie Stein, Ph.D.The Contemporary Jewish Museum by Lori StarrThe Arquives by Raegan SwansonEastern State Penitentiary Historic Site by Sean KelleyKa’ala Farm by Kay Fukuda with Eric EnosMinneapolis Institute of Art by Kaywin Feldman with Karleen GardnerNational Civil Rights Museum by Terri Lee FreemanNational Underground Railroad Freedom Center by Jamie Glavic with Dion BrownNorth Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences by Emlyn Koster, Ph.D.Nevada Art Museum by David B. WalkerOakland Museum of California by Lori FogartyPhipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens by Richard V. PiacentiniPresident Lincoln’s Cottage by Erin Carlon MastSan Diego Museum of Man by Micah Parzen, Ph.D., J.D.Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History by Nina SimonTamástslikt Cultural Institute by Roberta ConnerThe Wild Center by Stephanie RatcliffeChapter 6: US and International Mission Statements Introduction by Gail AndersonU.S. Mission StatementsInternational Mission StatementsChapter 7: Development of a Mission StatementChapter 8: Mission Matters ToolkitIntroduction by Gail AndersonMission MatricesInstitutional FrameworksTheories of Transformational ChangeChapter 9: Final Thoughts

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.6.2019
• Reihe/Serie: American Alliance of Museums
• Zusatzinfo: 43 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 15 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs; - 27 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: Mission Statements • museum management • Museums • relevancy • Strategic thinking • Values • Vision
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-0349-4 / 1538103494
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-0349-4 / 9781538103494