Well, two months later I have the compiled results of the informal
survey I took of small museums. They are pasted below. Thank you again
for all of your help. With this and the responses I received to my
query about programming plans, I was able to put together a plan that
was well received by our administration. What a great group of
colleagues I have.
Small Museums Survey
(Conducted online on the Museums listserv and the Museum Educators
listserv
in March 2004 by Julie Holcomb, College and Special Collections
Archivist)
1. Annual attendance:
a. <2500 1
b. 2500 to 4999 4
c. 5000 to 7499 4
d. 7500 to 10,000 14
e. 10,000 + 2
2. Types of tours offered:
a. Self-guided 22
b. Docent led 24
c. Audio 0
d. All of the above 0
3. Do you offer special events at your museum? Yes – 25; No – 0 If
yes, how many? One to ten – 14; Eleven to twenty – 8; Twenty-one to
forty – 3
4. Do you charge for special events? Yes – 4; No – 14; Depends on event
– 7 If your museum charges admission, does the price include
admission? Yes – 4; No – 6
5. Do you rotate exhibits or hold special exhibitions? Yes – 25 How
many times per year? One to five – 22; six to ten – 2; more than 10 – 1
Designed in-house or contracted out or a combination? In-house – 12;
Contracted – 10; Combination – 3 Do you use items from your collection,
borrow from other institutions, or both? Own collections – 18; Borrow –
4; Both - 3
6. Do you offer supplementary activities such as games boxes, or other
activities that can be completed in the museum? Yes – 20; No – 5
7. Are other types of activities offered by your museum such as book
signings, etc.? Yes – 18; No – 7 What kinds of activities are offered?
Lectures, gallery talks, preservation fairs, summer history camps,
candlelight tours, book signings, Girl Scout programs, pre-school
programs, art activities,once-a-month adult activities, school
activities
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Julie Holcomb, MLIS, CA
College and Special Collections Archivist
Pearce Collections at Navarro College
Navarro College Archives
3100 W. Collin St.
Corsicana, Texas 75110
Phone: 903-875-7438 ~ Fax: 903-875-7593
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Internet: http://www.pearcecollections.us/ or
http://www.navarrocollege.edu/library/archives/
"Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they
please; they do not make it under
circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly
found, given, and transmitted
from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a
nightmare on the brain of
the living." Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire
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