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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:18:52 +0100
From: "Geoff Matthews" <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Ken,
The most comprehensive listing on Museum Studies,
conveniently divided into themed lists, is that
published annually by Leicester University
Bookshop. All new books on the lists are
highlighted.
Books specifically about exhibition design that
have some level of theoretcical underpinning are
few and far between, the classic ones being:
Belcher, M. (1991) Exhibitions in Museums,
Leicester university Press. Dean, D. (1994)
Museum Exhibition, London Routledge. Miles, R. S.
et al (1988) The Design of Educational Exhibits,
2nd edn. London: Unwin Hyman.
There are several journals that carry good
articles on museum exhibition design - try:
Museum Practice, Museums Journal, Frame, Barrier
Free (the magazine of the Museums and Galleries
Disability Association).
It is worth considering that the larger market
for exhibition design expertise is in the
commercial sector and there are some real
challenges in translating the issues of brand
enhancement and communication (consumer and
business to business), globalization and
sustainability, etc. into the programme for
exhibition and event design.
I would say that I am not aware of any single
text that provides a satisfactory introduction to
all of the relevant issues. As I type our online
catalogue server has gone down - if you would
like more drop me a reminder and I will follow up
with a short bibliography.
In passing, our Exhibition Design course has been
running in one form or another since 1947 - I
think it was the world's first such named
programme.
Regards
Dr Geoff Matthews
Course Leader MA Interdisciplinary Design
Lincoln School of Architecture
+44 (0) 1522 837139
visit the museum and exhibition design websites on
http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/courses/architecture/undergraduate/museum/index.asp
and
http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/courses/architecture/postgraduate/interdisc/index.asp
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:52:26 +0300
From: Lily Diaz <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Ken:
I cannot recall ever seeing such a text. What we
have used here at the lab for similar courses is
a combination of texts from different books and
magazines...
Regards,
Lily
Dr. Lily Díaz-Kommonen
Acting Professor
Systems of Representation
& Digital Cultural Heritage,
Media Lab
University of Art and Design Helsinki/UIAH
135C Hämeentie SF 00560 FINLAND
+ 358 9 75630 338
+ 358 9 75630 555 FAX
+ 358 40 7256925 GSM
<[log in to unmask]>
<http://sysrep.uiah.fi>
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:14:01 -0400
From: Charles Burnette <[log in to unmask]>
From: "Burnette, Allegra" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:27:48 -0400
To: Charles Burnette <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Information Request on Museums and Galleries
These are some of the more recent ones:
Reinventing the Museum, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the
Paradigm Shift (Paperback)
by Gail Anderson
Making Museums Matter (Paperback)
by Stephen Weil
New Museum Theory And Practice: An Introduction
by Janet Marstine
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She also suggested checking the AAM (American Association of Museums) website.
If I may be so bold as to suggest it, Allegra
(Creative Director of Digital Media at MoMA)
would be a great guest speaker for this course.
She is at the cutting edge of some significant
changes in how museums communicate as
Communication Arts, How and ID recently
acknowledged in their awards to MoMA for work she
was responsible for. (She has even made
audiotours available for downloading through
itunes.) OK so I'm proud of her!
See you on Friday.
Chuck
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:54:57 -0700
From: "Nelle Steele" <[log in to unmask]>
ken, this might not be exactly what you're
looking for, but when i attended the European
CSCW meetings a couple years ago, i was
thoroughly impressed by this group's work and
presentation:
Assembling History: Achieving coherent
experiences with diverse technologies. Mike
Fraser, lead author
They had done incredibly creative things with
technology to get children and adults engaged in
the history of a particular castle that was a
tourist destination [i think in scotland]. for
example, they had created a 'tent' on which they
projected images that kids could get inside to
study; they also did something with RFID [i
think] so that attendees could amass info as they
walked around the grounds of the castle, learning
about its history. unfortunately, i no longer
have the proceedings from the meeting, and just
looked online---i think you can get this in
rehashed form through ACM library.
take care, nelle
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:07:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: morrie fred <[log in to unmask]>
p.s. some years ago Deborah Eriksson published thesis
from Stockholm U on art galleries and general art
scene in Stockholm--should be available from Dept. of
Anthropology in Stockholm U
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From: Vanessa Rood <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: The Museum in Transition
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:41:22 -0400
Hilde S. Hein, The Museum in Transition: A
Philosphical Perspective (Smithsonian Institution
Press, 2000)
During the past thirty years, museums of all
kinds have tried to become more responsive to the
interests of a diverse public. With exhibitions
becoming people-centered, idea-oriented, and
contextualized, the boundaries between museums
and the "real" world are eroding. Setting the
transition from object-centered to story-centered
exhibitions in a philosophical framework, Hilde
S. Hein contends that glorifying the museum
experience at the expense of objects deflects the
museum's educative, ethical, and aesthetic roles.
http://tinyurl.com/9uors
Vanessa Rood
Information, Design and Technology
Georgia Tech
http://www.idt.gatech.edu/
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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 08:50:27 +1200
From: "Bathurst, Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
Hi Ken
I have recently read a comprehensive arts
management text that covers elements of
marketing, strategy, purpose for art etc. that
might be worth a look. Derek Chong wrote his
piece out of museum work so it might have some
relevance? He also spends some time on the
critical issues via Bourdieu and Haacke
Chong, D. (2002). Arts management. New York: Routledge.
Regards
Ralph
Ralph Bathurst
Lecturer
Department of Management & International Business
Massey University, Albany Campus
Private Bag 102 904, North Shore MSC
Auckland
New Zealand
Email [log in to unmask]
Phone + 64 9 4140800 Ext. 9570
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:09:32 +0100
From: Carey Young <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Ken
I would particularly recommend the following:
Wu, Chin-tao, 'Privatising Culture', Verso
Kravagna, Christian, 'The Museum as Arena:
Artists on Institutional Critique', Kunsthaus
Bregenz
Don't know publication dates, sorry!
Best wishes
Carey
Carey Young
- +44 (0) 7956 580 103
- [log in to unmask]
- www.careyyoung.com
- Current shows:
+ 'Critical Societies: Politics of Belief',
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, to Nov 22
- Forthcoming:
+ 'The British Art Show 6', Baltic, Newcastle & tour, opens Sept 23
+ 'Tirana Biennale 3', Tirana, opens Oct 05
+ 'Consideration', Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, (solo), opens Nov
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From: "Geoff Matthews" <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Ken,
Find attached a short bibliography, by no means
balanced or comprehensive, and a copy of the 2004
Museum Studies Catalogue from Leicester
University. You are welcome to browse our
University Library Catalogue which you can access
on
http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/lr/index.htm
Regards
Dr Geoff Matthews
Course Leader MA Interdisciplinary Design
Lincoln School of Architecture
+44 (0) 1522 837139
visit the museum and exhibition design websites on
http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/courses/architecture/undergraduate/museum/index.asp
and
http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/courses/architecture/postgraduate/interdisc/index.asp
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:45:53 +0100
From: Hans Samuelson <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Ken;
With regard to your request for a text (or texts)
on museums and art galleries, I have a few quick
suggestions. Disclaimer: I am presently working
for an experience planning and design firm, and
am deeply enmeshed in the world of professional
museum design... albeit in a North American
context, rather different from the European
model...
--
Two interesting texts that might provide
worthwhile excerpts are available free of charge
at
http://www.coheridy.com/
Concept to Concrete: Blueprint for Creation of a
Northern Nevada Science Center. 2003. Michael R.
Elsesser. (PDF 1.6 MB)
Remolding the museum image through branding:
Benefits and challenges associated with branding
in San Francisco Bay area museums. 2003. Tatyana
D. Sizonenko-Leventhal. (PDF 2.1MB)
These provide interesting insights into,
respectively, the planning of a new institution
and the realities faced by existing institutions
in today's socio-economic context. At the same
time, these are distinctly American in flavor,
and are thus not directly linked to the Norwegian
context, with the more Nordic model of
interrelation between government and culture.
Nonetheless, they are thorough and well-grounded
works of some merit.
--
One of our professional contacts is with
consultants White Oaks Associates -- online at [
http://www.whiteoakassoc.com/toc.html ]. The
'capsules' that are available on their site would
be admirable tools for stimulating discussion on
a range of topics linked to museums, art
galleries, and other cultural institutions.
--
Perhaps the leading organization in cultural
planning in Canada (which is closer to the Nordic
countries in its governmental structure) is Lord
Cultural Planning. A range of recent articles are
available at
http://www.lord.ca/publications/articles/articles.html
I do not always agree with the Lords, but their
company is extremely successful in the
international marketplace, and their articles are
founded in intimate knowledge of the realities of
contemporary professional practice in the
cultural design sector.
--
An interesting tidbit, rather less scholarly, is available at the Wolff
Ollins website:
http://www.wolff-olins.com/tate.htm
It deals with the Tate gallery as a marketing
issue. While the level of detail is quite low, it
serves as a reminder that many museums have grown
to the same big-brand business as retail stores,
and are caught in the Experience Economy....
--
Should you wish additional references, it would
help to know the target audience of the course
(what faculty or school) as well as the level of
the course. These links are of potentially
general interest; the range of subjects you
describe is extremely large! For an undergraduate
survey course, these might serve as additional
links -- or perhaps of interest to the teacher!
My very best wishes,
Hans Samuelson
Montreal
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From: "John Cimino" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:05:44 -0400
Susan Baldino <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Ken,
A colleague of mine recently made a presentation
to the Museum Association in Florida, USA. I
contacted her and she passed on your request to
the association director who made the following
reply. I hope this information is helpful to
you. Please let me know if there is any other
way in which we can be of assistance. Best to
you.
John
John Cimino
President & CEO
Creative Leaps International
88 Hardscrabble Road, Chester, NY 10918
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>Susan Baldino
I have slews and slews of museum articles and
books I could suggest but because my time is so
limited right now, here are the main texts I
would recommend:
For critical and theoretical overview and
analysis of the field, along with some history --
Anderson, Gail (ed.) (2004) Reinventing the Museum, AltaMira Press.
Carbonell, Bettina Messias (ed.) (2004) Museum
Studies: An Anthology of Contexts, Blackwell.
Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean (2000) Museums and the
Interpretation of Visual Culture, Routledge,
London and New York.
Alexander, Edward P. (1983; 1995) Museum Masters:
Their Museums and Their Influence, AltaMira.
Alexander, Edward P. (1979; 1996) Museums in
Motion: An Into to the History and Functions of
Museums, AltaMira.
For professionalism and professional challenges --
Glaser, Jane R and Zenetou, Artemis A. (1996)
Museums: A Place to Work, Planning Museum
Careers, Routledge.
Kavanagh, Gaynor (1994) Museum Provision and Professionalism, Routledge.
For museum management --
Ambrose, Timothy and Paine, Crispin (1993) Museum Basics, Routledge.
Burcaw, G. E. (1997) Introduction to Museum Work, 3rd edition, AltaMira.
Fischer, Daryl and Butler, Lawrence (2004)
Strategic Thinking & Planning, Museum Trustee
Association.
Bryson, John M. (2004) Strategic Planning for
Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to
Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational
Achievement, Jossey-Bass.
Drucker, Peter F. (1999) Management Challenges
for the 21st Century, HarperCollins.
Drucker, Peter F. (1990) Managing the Non-Profit
Organization: Principles and Practices,
HaperCollins.
Edson, G and Dean, D. (1996) Handbook for Museums, Routledge.
Genoways, Hugh and Ireland, Lynne (2003) Museum
Administration: An Introduction, AltaMira.
George, Gerald (2004) Starting Right: A Basic
Guide to Museum Planning, 2nd edition, AltaMira.
Kopco, Mary et al. (2004) The Business of
Museums-A Behind the Scenes Look at Curatorship,
Management Strategies and Critical Components for
Success, Aspatore Books.
Lord, Barry and Lord, Gail Dexter (1997) The
Manual of Museum Management, 2nd edition,
AltaMira.
Moore, K. (ed.) (1999) Management in Museums, Athlone.
Suchy, Sherene (2004) Leading with Passion:
Change Management in the 21st-Century Museum,
AltaMira.
Wolf, Thomas (1999) Managing a Nonprofit
Organization in the Twenty-First Century, Simon &
Schuster.
Art, Museums, Economics --
ICOM (1992) Marketing the Arts
Heilbrun, J. and Gray, C. (2001) The Economics of
Art and Culture, Cambridge Univ. Press.
Smith, R.A. and Berman, R. (1992) Public Policy
and the Aesthetic Interest, Univ of Illinois
Press.
Best wishes and regards,
Susan
<[log in to unmask]>Susan Baldino
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