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This unique planning guide describes the different types of corporate museum-like facilities located in the United States and around the world. It provides essential information for anyone planning, starting up, or operating a museum, gallery, or visitor center. This how-to reference on the planning and administration of corporate museums or centers is written by Victor Danilov as a companion volume to his
Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers: A Directory, published by Greenwood Press in August 1991.
This practical guide analyzes the various types of corporate museum-like facilities and describes their development; points to key factors to consider in planning and establishing museums, galleries, and visitor centers; and discusses their operation and reasons for their success or failure. This unusual reference is nicely illustrated and offers both a bibliography and an index.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Types of Corporate Museum-like FacilitiesCorporate Museums and Exhibit Halls
Corporate Art Museums, Galleries, and Sculpture Gardens
Corporate Visitor and Information Centers
Other Corporate Exhibit Approaches
Corporate Startup DecisionsThe Planning Process
Implementing the Decision
Operating the FacilityCollections, Exhibits, and Programs
Managing the Operation
Measuring Success or Failure
Selected Bibliography
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
VICTOR J. DANILOV is Director of the Museum Management Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Danilov was president and director of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry for fifteen years. He is author of 18 books including University and College Museums, Galleries, and Related Facilities (1996), Museum Careers and Training: A Professional Guide (1994), A Planning Guide for Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers (1992), Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers: A Directory (1991), and America's Science Museums (1990), all from Greenwood Press.
