Hi all --

I'll bite.  :-)

Question posed by Indigo Nights:
> What do you see as the top ten challenges facing
> Museums at present and five years into the future?

Regretfully, I couldn't think of ten . . . but suggest five
complicated, gargantuan, nearly-universal challenges.

1. Balanced budgets
2. Educational/informative exhibitions appealing to large
numbers of visitors
3. Increasing membership
4. Recruiting, training and keeping devoted and passionate
volunteers
5. Respect for all visitors and staff, regardless of:
        (a) the fancy letters that may or may not proceed or follow
their names;
        (b) where they were born or grew up;
        (c) what they look like;
        (d) who they love; and,
        (e) any other characteristics that have been used to divide
rather than unite.

I hope everyone's having a great day!

Sincerely,

Jay Heuman, Visitor & Volunteer Services Coordinator
Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, 68102
342-3300 (telephone)     342-2376 (fax)       www.joslyn.org

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