[NHCOLL-L:4464] Museum Management course online Aug 31

[Helen Alten]

MS109:  Museum Management
Dates: Aug 31 - Oct 2, 2009
  Price: $425
Instructor: Sue Near
Location:  www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Sound business practices are critical for a museum to fulfill its 
mission. Sounds like vegetables, right? Museum Management is complex. 
A museum exists to preserve collections and educate, but it is also 
an institution that must employ sound business practices while being 
accountable to the public as a non-profit organization. Instructor 
Sue Near teaches participants how to administer a successful museum 
efficiently and effectively. Participants will engage in discussions 
about the changing cultural climate and its effect on museum operations.

Course Outline
1. Introduction
2. Legal and Planning Documents
3. Staff Responsibilities, Organization, & Personnel Management
4. Strategic Planning
5. Budget Management and Accountability
6. Collections Management
7. Facilities Management
8. Marketing and Community Relations
9. Development and Membership
10. Public Programs and Evaluation
11. Overview Future Trends

Course Book:
Museum Administration: An Introduction By Hugh H. Genoways 
(University of Nebraska State Museum) and Lynne M. Ireland (Nebraska 
State Historical Society), Series: American Association for State and 
Local History, AltaMira Press, 2003

Logistics:
Participants in Museum Management work through sections the above 
sections on their own. Instructor Susan Near is available for 
scheduled email support. Materials and resources include online 
literature and references, slide lectures and dialog between students 
and online chats led by the instructor. The course is limited to 20 
participants.

Museum Management runs six weeks. To reserve a spot in the course, 
please pay at 
<http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html>http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html 
If you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at helen at collectioncare.org

Student Comments for MS109: Museum Management:
The instructor was very helpful and informative. She did a great job. 
The diversity of topics within the course were well selected. It 
covered a broad enough scope to really educate without being too much.

The textbook selection was very good. It is an easy to read text and 
not too long. With this particular course, I found some of the 
additional readings more useful than the PowerPoint or lectures.

This is a really good course.

I found it informative and felt my knowledge of the subject increased 
quite a bit.

It was a great experience. I look forward to taking more courses in the future.

I enjoyed learning through my classmates, being able to ask questions 
regarding things I deal with at work, and discovering new sources of 
information.

I enjoyed the course a lot. I felt very satisfied when I completed 
it, I am looking forward to furthering my education more through 
online courses.

I liked that Sue provided a wide range of reading and learning 
material for most of the sections in addition to the required text 
and any powerpoint or lecture notes. It allowed me to pick and choose 
the ones that were most useful and meaningful to me.

I enjoyed the class and learned new things and confirmed my knowledge 
on other things. Sue was a great teacher and kept the ball rolling. 
Thanks Sue, Eric and Helen.

The Instructor:
Susan Near is special projects manager at the Montana Historical 
Society in Helena. Prior positions at the Historical Society include 
director of museum services (1989-2007), curator of collections 
(1984-1989), and registrar (1982-1984). She also worked as 
collections research specialist at the Valley Forge Historical 
Society in Pennsylvania. She has been curator for more than 20 major 
exhibitions ranging from western art to decorative arts, and has 
conducted material culture research covering a broad range of 
collections. Near co-authored Montana's State Capitol:The People's 
House, Montana Historical Society Press, 2002. Near has extensive 
administrative experience especially in grant-writing, heritage 
tourism, educational outreach, public relations, marketing, planning 
for new museum construction, and project and event management. She is 
an accreditation visiting committee member for the American 
Association of Museums, has conducted peer reviews for the Museums 
Assessment Program, and has reviewed and served on grants panels for 
the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the National 
Endowment for the Humanities. Ms. Near is a graduate of the Museum 
Studies Program at the University of Delaware and the Getty's Museum 
Management Institute.
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