Hi Adrienne,

To answer your question, it would be helpful to know why you are asking
it? For example, visitors per year, annual income and size of collection
are all metrics that are used to classify the size of museums, but can
produce very different rankings.

I don't know of an official universal formula or a study as I'm not sure
too many think this is a fruitful exercise? Other members of this list
may think otherwise and will no doubt say if so!

In my experience "small" museums can have "big" ideas, so I for one try
and keep away from trying to rank by size...

In the UK, we tend to classify museum according to how they are funded,
who they are run by, or according to the type of collections they hold -
rather than size.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Jerry Symonds - Senior Internal Auditor
Historic Royal Palaces
Hampton Court Palace
Surrey
England

 

-----Original Message-----
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Museum classifications

I am trying to find a study previously done with museums so that I 
can see how museums are classified into small, medium and large 
museums in previous studies. Does anyone know of a study that made 
this kind of distinction or is there an official formula for 
making the three distinctions?

Thanks
Adrienne


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Adrienne Fletcher
M.AMC Department of Public Relations
College of Journalism & Communications
University of Florida

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