MS109: Museum Management
Dates: Mar 29 through Apr 30, 2010
Price: $475
Instructor: Sue Near
Location: online at www.museumclasses.org
Description:
A museum exists to preserve collections and educate, but it
is also an institution that must employ sound business
practices while being accountable to the public as a
non-profit organization. Museum Management is complex. Good
business practices are critical for a museum to fulfill its
mission. Instructor Sue Near teaches participants how to
administer a successful museum efficiently and effectively.
Participants will engage in discussions about the changing
cultural climate and its effect on museum operations.
Course Outline
1. Introduction
2. Legal and Planning Documents
3. Staff Responsibilities, Organization, & Personnel
Management
4. Strategic Planning
5. Budget Management and Accountability
6. Collections Management
7. Facilities Management
8. Marketing and Community Relations
9. Development and Membership
10. Public Programs and Evaluation
11. Overview Future Trends
Course Book:
Museum Administration: An Introduction By Hugh H. Genoways
(University of Nebraska State Museum) and Lynne M. Ireland
(Nebraska State Historical Society), Series: American
Association for State and Local History, AltaMira Press,
2003
Logistics:
Participants in Museum Management work through sections the
above sections on their own. Instructor Susan Near is
available for scheduled email support. Materials and
resources include online literature and references, slide
lectures and dialog between students and online chats led
by the instructor. The course is limited to 20
participants.
Museum Management runs six weeks. To reserve a spot in the
course, please pay at
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html . If you have
trouble please contact Helen Alten at
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Student Comments for MS109: Museum Management:
The instructor was very helpful and informative. She did a
great job. The diversity of topics within the course were
well selected. It covered a broad enough scope to really
educate without being too much.
The textbook selection was very good. It is an easy to read
text and not too long. With this particular course, I found
some of the additional readings more useful than the
PowerPoint or lectures.
This is a really good course.
I found it informative and felt my knowledge of the subject
increased quite a bit.
It was a great experience. I look forward to taking more
courses in the future.
I enjoyed learning through my classmates, being able to ask
questions regarding things I deal with at work, and
discovering new sources of information.
I enjoyed the course a lot. I felt very satisfied when I
completed it, I am looking forward to furthering my
education more through online courses.
I liked that Sue provided a wide range of reading and
learning material for most of the sections in addition to
the required text and any powerpoint or lecture notes. It
allowed me to pick and choose the ones that were most
useful and meaningful to me.
I enjoyed the class and learned new things and confirmed my
knowledge on other things. Sue was a great teacher and kept
the ball rolling. Thanks Sue, Eric and Helen.
The Instructor:
Susan Near is special projects manager at the Montana
Historical Society in Helena. Prior positions at the
Historical Society include director of museum services
(1989-2007), curator of collections (1984-1989), and
registrar (1982-1984). She also worked as collections
research specialist at the Valley Forge Historical Society
in Pennsylvania. She has been curator for more than 20
major exhibitions ranging from western art to decorative
arts, and has conducted material culture research covering
a broad range of collections. Near co-authored Montana's
State Capitol:The People's House, Montana Historical
Society Press, 2002. Near has extensive administrative
experience especially in grant-writing, heritage tourism,
educational outreach, public relations, marketing, planning
for new museum construction, and project and event
management. She is an accreditation visiting committee
member for the American Association of Museums, has
conducted peer reviews for the Museums Assessment Program,
and has reviewed and served on grants panels for the
Institute for Museum and Library Services and the National
Endowment for the Humanities. Ms. Near is a graduate of the
Museum Studies Program at the University of Delaware and
the Getty's Museum Management Institute.
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