Agreed -- an important topic, i.e., accessibility, problems facing
small museums, etc.

There again may be problems in defining "small."

I heard yesterday that it is actually on "operation" of the museum
and how many people a museum can attract.  If you have 2,000,000
artifacts, have 300 staff, but only draw in 2,000 visitors compared
to 100,000, of a museum that had only 3 staff, 2,000 objects in
their collection.  The small staff, with a larger visitation would
be a larger musuem "professionally."  IMHO, it is how the museum is
organized that makes it function as a large or small museum.

Size of staff, collection, budget really has nothing to do with it,
if professionally they cannot achieve their "mission."


John Martinson
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