List members may be interested in this new publication, currently available at a pre-publication savings.

The Innovative Museum brings together for the first time in book form a rich, varied and inspirational collection of essays which examine the role and the practice of innovation in the museum context worldwide. 

Based on the experience of pioneering institutions

In its 440 pages, The Innovative Museum shares the experience of some of the world's leading international thinkers and practitioners in the field of innovation and museums. Together, these essays provide sound, practice-based examples of the process of successful innovation, especially in the key areas of communication, inclusion and change in a museum, gallery and heritage context.

The wealth of pioneering institutions whose experiences are featured include: 

• Center for the Preservation of the Political Memory, São Paulo, Brazil

• Constitution Hill Prison Museum, South Africa

• Experimentarium, Copenhagen

• Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow

• Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago

• Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City

• LUCE Foundation Centre for American Art, Smithsonian Institution

• Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb

• Museum of Free Derry, Derry

• National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

• National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

• Science Museum, London

• Victims Museum, Fayzabad, Afghanistan

The Innovative Museum is available to order at up to 20% savings until 28 February when the book will be published and orders shipped. For full details of the authors and content please visit: www.museumsetc.com/products/innovative

This is a book packed with exciting ideas - ideas which have been put into practice. If you're at all interested in change, innovation and what museums can achieve, you won't want to miss it!

Graeme Farnell

Publisher, MuseumsEtc

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MuseumsEtc Ltd 

UK: Hudson House | 8 Albany Street | Edinburgh EH1 3QB

USA: 675 Massachusetts Ave., Ste 11 | Cambridge | MA 02139

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