> MAP Helps Museums with a New, Improved Process of Self-Study
> In 1999 professionals from throughout the museum field helped AAM redesign
> the Museum Assessment Program (MAP) self-study process. The result is the
> new MAP Assessment Self-Study Workbooks first used by museums entering the
> program in the spring of 2000.
>
> "The Workbook is excellent: it is helping to reveal many of our most
> difficult challenges." - Scot Medbury, Director, Strybing Arboretum and
> Botanical Gardens & San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
>
>  "...this was a very useful exercise. One of our Board members stated:
> 'the Self-Study Workbook and self-study process has forced us to take a
> long, hard look at ourselves-what we are, what we would like to be, and
> what we need to get there.'" - Assessment Team, Captain Salem Avery House
> Museum and Shady Side Rural Heritage Society, Shady Side, Md.
>
> "The assessment was a great tool to help us fine tune and better
> understand our processes...(it) certainly raised awareness of our mission,
> opportunities, and challenges among staff. It also strengthened staff
> focus and interest." - Assessment Team, Eiteljorg Museum of Native
> American and Western Art, Indianapolis
>
> The new Workbooks include:
>
> *     Activities for each assessment. Pioneered with Public Dimension
> Assessment in 1991, Activities are interactive exercises that help you
> gather information on how you operate, provide opportunities to try new
> methods of working, and produce tools to help you implement policies and
> procedures.
> *     Checklists that enable you to compare your museum's operations to
> the strategies used by other museums in solving common museum challenges.
>
> *     More rigorous and comprehensive questions, reflecting the desire
> expressed by the field for a self-study tool that challenges them to
> explore all facets of their operations.
>
> Extracts from the new Workbooks (Table of Contents, Overview, sample
> questions, Activity summary, and sample Activity) are available in PDF
> format on the AAM Web site: www.aam-us.org/map.htm.
>
> The next deadline for IMLS funding of MAP is March 15, 2001. Applications
> are available at the MAP Web site (www.aam-us.org/map.htm) or may be
> obtained by e-mailing MAP staff at: [log in to unmask]
>
> Museum Assessment Program
> American Association of Museums
> 1575 Eye Street NW, Suite 400
> Washington, DC 20005
> Telephone: 202-289-9118
> Fax: 202-289-6578
> TDD: 202-289-8439
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> Web site: www.aam-us.org/map.htm

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