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What We Talk About When We Talk About Development: How Board Members & CEOs Assess Their Organization's Development
(2013-07-25)This study focuses on the relationship between Board members and CEOs of nonprofit museums, specifically in the realm of development. In large part, it is unclear whether Board members and CEOs approach development in the ... -
Are Museum Professionals Happy? Exploring Well-Being Across Domains and in the Workplace
(2013-07-25)Within the museum field, it is widely acknowledged that museums can have a positive influence on public well-being. Little is known, however, about the well-being of the people who staff museums, which may influence museums' ... -
Put a Frame on It: Contextualizing Climate Change for Museum Visitors
(2013-07-25)Public opinion polls continue to show that Americans are divided--particularly along political and ideological lines--on whether climate change is real and warrants immediate action. Those in the natural and social sciences ... -
Exploring the Seattle museum community's perceptions toward crowdfunding
(2013-07-25)The goal of this study is to understand how Seattle's emerging museum professionals of the Millennial generation think crowdfunding may affect a museum's relationship and standing with its stakeholders. The inclusion ... -
Emerging Trends with Interactives in Art Museums
(2013-07-25)This research explores the emerging trend of art museums incorporating interactives into their galleries. Literature suggests advantages to having interactives, such as enhancing the learning experience, making the art ... -
Magic in the Music? Music Programming in Art Museums
(2013-07-25)In an effort to attract new audiences, a number of art museums have turned to participation-building programming as a mechanism for getting new audiences in the door (Harlow et al., 2011). Music programming is a widespread ... -
Early Childhood Learning in Preschool Planetarium Programs
(2013-07-25)Family groups comprise a significant percentage of the museum visitor population, and many programs are created specifically for young learners (Borun, 2008). One such learning environment is that of planetaria, where both ... -
Creating a Greater Connection: Volunteer Training in Seattle-area Museums
(2013-07-25)<bold>Abstract<bold> Creating a Greater Connection: Volunteer Training in Seattle-area Museums Nicole Lillian Ohlandt Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Wilson O'Donnell Museology Graduate Program →This thesis will seek ... -
More than Crowdsourcing Science: The Reasons for Museum Citizen Science Programs and how and why they Change
(2013-07-25)This exploratory research study seeks to identify reasons why museums begin citizen science programming, why they continue to do citizen science, and how and why their programs have changed over time. Citizen science is a ... -
Terminals or Galleries? An Exploratory Study of Museum Operations in AIrports
(2013-11-14)Many airports are utilizing museum-quality exhibitions about history, science, culture, and art in their spaces. Some airports have even established a fully-fledged museum and incorporated the museum into the airport's ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Warts and All: The Representation and Interpretation of War in Museums
The goal of this research was to address the issue of sanitization in the development, design, and presentation of exhibits about war. The definition of sanitization was to make a topic less offensive by limiting, altering, ... -
Culture You Can Drink: What Can Museums Learn from Brewery Tours?
Large brewery tours are popular attractions. However, they are rarely considered to be cultural attractions despite academic research linking localized food and beverages such as beer to local culture. To investigate this ... -
It’s Only Temporary: Public Art and the Museum
This descriptive study examines the process of commissioning public artworks formally determined or directed by their environments—ie: sculpture gardens and site-specific public art installations—from the perspective of ... -
Play On: The Importance of Adult-Only Play Events at Children's Museums
Play is an important part of an adult visitor’s museum experience. While recent research shows that adult visitors benefit from opportunities to play much like their younger counterparts, many museums are slow to incorporate ... -
Creating Discomfort: Exploring the Use of Emotional Immersive Experiences to Address Social Issues in Museums
This study investigated current design practices used to engage visitors in emotional immersive experiences to address social issues in museums, particularly focusing on why a program or exhibit developer might use this ... -
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 ... -
How Can We Talk About It? Disrupting Heteronormativity Through Historic House Museums
Increasingly, museums are engaging in conversations around queer topics to make connections with a community that has historically been absent from museums. We, as museum professionals, have the opportunity to continue ...