The AAM has published, and sells, a package (through Technical
Information Service) on suggested qualifications for museum professionals
and on the criteria for evaluating museum studies programs, i.e. what a
museum studies curriculum should contain.
 
Linda Ellis
Museum Studies Program
San Francisco State University
 
On Wed, 4 Jan 1995, Byron A. Johnson (813) 228-0097 wrote:
 
> It might help if the A.A.M. would publish a flyer of those criteria with a
> list of training programs in the U.S. and Canada meeting those criteria. I
> think the A.A.M. is very good at putting brainpower to work on problems,
> but not quite so good at practical application. It has always had a problem
> reaching students considering the career field. A guide to credentials
> would not hurt for Board Members and hiring agents who do not know
> conservation of trees from conservation of art. Where do you get the museum
> program guidelines anyway? I must have missed that in Museum News.
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