A Home for Artifacts
July 10, 2013 By Kevin Kiley
[excerpt] Despite all the hand-wringing about the long-term financial viability of higher education institutions, one group of institutions views universities as a rock-solid bet on which to stake their futures: museums.
And that's likely because many of them face larger existential threats than their counterparts in higher education.
In the past few years, multiple museums and other nonprofit cultural institutions -- struggling financially in the wake of the 2008 recession -- have turned to colleges and universities for help, asking them to strike partnerships with or acquire them in a bid to provide financial sustainability.
full article: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/10/museums-look-university-partners-put-them-viable-financial-path
Inside Higher Ed
The Museum in 2020
http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums2020/workshop-responses [survey results]
including report as PDF, http://www.museumsassociation.org/download?id=1001738
Museums 2020 is the Museums Association's initiative to develop a vision of museums and their impact. In autumn 2012 we published a discussion paper and held workshops to explore these ideas.
Related resources (membership required for full browsing, though)
http://www.museumsassociation.org/museum-practice/mp-archive [many facets of museum best practices]
http://www.museumsassociation.org/museum-practice/wikipedia [how museums can use wikipedia to present collections]
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