Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The eminent contributors to this volume provide museum leaders with a different set of criteria for evaluating the success of their museums, proposing a set of sustainable values that can help museums preserve themselves and advance their social mission in hard times - and help them thrive when times improve. While attendance and money will continue to count and be counted in our museums, numbers alone can never drive sustainable success. Only the unique dynamic identity that a museum can claim will do that."--Jacket.
Contents:
The International Museum Institute : origin and cause / Joseph E. Aoun --
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste / Selma Holo --
The set of sustainable values --
Museum values / Maxwell L. Anderson --
The credibility of museums / Gerardo Estrada Rodríguez --
Transmitting the legacy / Plácido Arango --
Natural history museums as sentinel observatories of life on earth : a public trust / Leonard Krishtalka --
Including cultural justice in a museum's value system / Elazar Barkan --
It's all about the permanent collection / Jon L. Seydl --
Bringing our permanent collections to life / Leticia Azcue Brea --
What are we showing in our museums? / Donny George Youkhanna --
From the perspective of Turkey--
/ Ílber Ortayli --
The revitalization of the urban environment : a measure of the museum's social value / Guillermo Barrios --
Ethnic-specific museums : why they matter and how they make a difference / Selma Holo --
What is the relevance of museums? Can you imagine a world without them? / Cherise Smith and Gary Matthews, Jr. --
Will museums survive? / Jay Wiegel --
Remembering abolition : Britain and the slave trade, 1807-2007 / James Walvin --
Including contmeporary art at the Musée du Quai Branley : a way of coming to terms with the colonial past à la Française? / Bernard Müller --
The Huntington's decisions about audience and service : how and where could a children's garden be brought into play? / James Folsom --
Museums (a rapid view of guided tours) : the ruins of the future should be in shop windows / Carlos Monsiváis --
Grappling with limits : museums and social inclusion / Vanda Vitali --
Defending the universal (encyclopedic) museum / Anthony Appiah --
Professional museum training programs at the National Gallery of Art : from the shores of the Potomac to a world view / Faya Causey --
A work in progress : cultural district, Abu Dhabi / Charles Merewether --
Two museums, two visions of Mexican artes populares in the era of globalization / Shelly Errington --
In service to artists--
/ Steven Evans --
Museums and creativity / David Wilson --
Art and science, nature and art in a natural history museum / Marco Barrera Bassols --
Creativity and experimentation in the world of archaeology / Nelly M. Robles García --
Setting precedent / Carrie Przybilla --
Alliances, new and renewed / Santiago Palomero --
The crossing of art and science : expanding the field / Lita Albuquerque --
Museums and alliances/allies / Ramiro Martínez --
New alliances/new philanthropies : the Alfredo Harp Foundation / María Isabel Grañén Porrúa --
When I was a youngster / Alan Shestack --
Authentic experiences / James Elkins --
Mezcal for the earth / Alejandro de Ávila Blomberg --
The "total" museum : a tool for social change / Jorge Wagensberg --
Guernica Gernikara / Mari-Tere Álvarez --
Minds in museums : knowledge evolving / Steven Seidel --
Afghanistan : hidden treasures from the National Museum, Kabul, and the generation and diffusion of knowledge / Fredrik T. Hiebert --
Art in the making : another view of art history / David Bomford --
Interdisciplinary work and knowledge management : a dynamic for the contemporary museum / Graciela de la Torre --
Reality check / Tom Freudenheim --
Communication : one mission, one blog / Gary Vikan --
The polished edge / Lori Starr --
Texts and contexts in museology / Javier Arnaldo --
Communicating through design and display : the new American Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Elliot Bostwick Davis --
Museumspace / Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez.
