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John W. Jacobsen

The Effective Museum: Rethinking Museum Practices to Increase Impact

The Effective Museum: Rethinking Museum Practices to Increase Impact

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The Effective Museum offers practical suggestions for increasing a museum's impact, including revising conceptual framework, revitalizing audiences, reorganizing, reinvesting, and repositioning programming. It encourages readers to think about new ideas and implement them in their own museums, with a focus on a new way of thinking about museum practices.

Format: Hardback
Length: 198 pages
Publication date: 30 September 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc


The Effective Museum: Rethinking Museum Practices to Increase Impact offers practical guidance for achieving museums' intended goals. By revising conceptual frameworks, revitalizing audiences and supporters, reorganizing museums, reinvesting in resources, repositioning programming, and restoring management basics, this book aims to help museums rethink key practices. It presents a range of suggestions, not a single system, with shared definitions and frameworks. Each chapter includes a problem statement, new suggestions, resistance, potential impacts and benefits, and an implementation process. The suggestions vary in form, from strategies to lists of options or research questions to implementation steps. The underlying principle is a new way of thinking about museum practices, empowering readers to build their own learning and legacy.

Weight: 576g
Dimension: 185 x 263 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538164341

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