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Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Decision-Making about Acquisitions at Community Historical Organizations
The purpose of this study was to describe acquisitions policy at community historical organizations through a decision-making perspective. Five curators from community historical organizations in King County, Washington, were interviewed about their decision-making processes regarding gifts offered for collections. These ...
Ethnic Identity Formation in Adolescence: Impact of Teen Programs in Museums
(2013-07-25)
While there is an emerging body of literature on teen programs in museums, research has not addressed how these programs affect adolescents' racial, cultural, or ethnic identities. This qualitative study explores how teen programs in museums attempt to impact and are impacting participants' sense of their ethnic identity. The ...
Approaching the Limitless: The Sustainability of Art-Collecting Institutions of the Pacific Northwest
This paper focused on growth and sustainability within art collections at seven art-collecting institutions of the Pacific Northwest. This topic is crucial to the future collecting plans of art-collecting institutions. The goals of this study were to identify how art-collecting institutions addressed collections growth and ...
Reduced Admission: Benefits and Challenges for Children’s Museums
To offer reduced admission or not is a question that many museums struggle to answer. This qualitative case study examines the benefits and challenges that children’s museums experience by providing reduced admission through the Museums for All (MFA) initiative. Semi-structured interviews and document analysis were conducted ...
Current Science in Museums and Science Centers
People are faced with many science-related issues such as climate change, medical research, and new technologies, but often lack the basic science literacy or interest in understanding how these issues affect their lives. Museums and science centers are addressing this issue by interpreting current science research in their ...
Recovering from Natural Disasters: Helping Museum Employees Return to Workplace Normalcy
This study evaluated how museums help their employees return to workplace normalcy after a natural disaster affects their institution and professional lives, and to address what policies they used to facilitate this transition. The study focused on three key policies: disaster/emergency preparedness plans, business continuity ...
Looking Through Glass: Understanding Visitor Perceptions of Visible Storage Methods in Museums
Museums today try to increase the public’s access to their collections in a variety of ways. Visible storage is one such popular method. However, there is little research done on what the public thinks about this kind of access. This study sought to understand visitor perceptions of visible storage methods in museums. Thirty ...
Long-Term Impacts of a Museum School Experience on Science Identity
While museum schools have proliferated over the past quarter century, little research has examined the outcomes of these formal-informal partnerships. This study investigated the long- term impacts of a museum school experience on alumni of Raisbeck Aviation High School and the Museum of Flight (Seattle) and Science Leadership ...
Big Data Development: A Tool for Interpreting Institutional Impact
The purpose of this research study is to understand how immediate and ongoing access to Big Data analytics, focused on museum visitors, influences the strategies used by development departments to communicate institutional value and impact. Through in-depth interviews, development professionals at the Dallas Museum of Art, ...
Roles and Responsibility of Digital Engagement Managers in Art Museums
Digital technology is ubiquitous, inseparable, and permeates all aspects of our lives, but understanding how to use this technology in galleries and online, is not self-evident. As a result, some museums have established professional, salaried positions that focus specifically on delivering compelling content and relevant ...