Museum Administration

Hugh H. Genoways, Lynne M. Ireland

• Paperback | American Association for State and Local History
• Museum Administration is the handbook for students, new professionals, and anyone who needs to know what goes into running a museum. The authors cover... Lees meer

Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites and Museums

Sarah Sutton

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• Growing public interest in environmental sustainability is a gift to historic sites and museums. It is an invitation to use our knowledge, collections... Lees meer

Managing People and Projects in Museums

Martha Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• In Managing People and Projects in Museums, readers will discover a practical guide to managing projects and important lessons about the critical role... Lees meer

Commemoration

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• Commemoration: The American Association for State and Local History Guide serves as a handbook for historic site managers, heritage professionals, and... Lees meer

Defining Memory

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• This second edition of Defining Memory offers readers multiple lenses for viewing and discussing local institutions. New chapters analyze the ways in ... Lees meer

Spaces That Tell Stories

Donna R Braden

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• This book is a unique and insightful resource for those planning to re-create a historic environment, other museum and history professionals, graduate... Lees meer

Care and Display of Historic Clothing

Karen M Depauw

• Hardcover | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• The Care and Display of Historic Clothing aims to assist with the full integration of costume collections into the interpretation of the past. The top... Lees meer

Controversial Monuments and Memorials

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• This book addresses tough issues that museum professionals, public historians, and community leaders face with the challenges of competing historical ... Lees meer

Membership Marketing in the Digital Age

Patricia Rich, Dana S Hines, Rosie Siemer

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• Membership marketing and management is an ever more demanding role within the institutions served--meeting fiscal demands, keeping pace with online ma... Lees meer

Places of Worship

James P Wind

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• Whether Christian churches, Jewish synagogues, Islamic mosques, Buddhist temples, or the gathering places for other faiths, buildings designed for wor... Lees meer

Controversial Monuments and Memorials

• Hardcover | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• The impetus for the first edition was violent actions---the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, which was touched off by dis... Lees meer

Museum and Historic Site Management

Samantha Chmelik

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• Museum and Historic Site Management: A Case Study Approach utilizes the classic business case study approach to help museum and public history profess... Lees meer

Zen and the Art of Local History

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• Zen and the Art of Local History is an engaging, interactive conversation that conveys the exciting nature of local history. Divided into six major th... Lees meer

Interpreting Historic House Museums

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• Times are changing at historic house museums and no one is more aware of this than the fourteen contributors to Interpreting Historic House Museums. T... Lees meer

Folklife and Museums

• Hardcover | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• Much has changed in the fields of museology and folklife during the past 30 years, when Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings was first published by... Lees meer

Commemoration

• Hardcover | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• Commemoration: The American Association for State and Local History Guide serves as a handbook for historic site managers, heritage professionals, and... Lees meer

Promise of Cultural Institutions

David Carr

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• This thought-provoking collection of essays is essential reading for anyone who cares about cultural institutions and their role in the community of l... Lees meer

Registration Methods for the Small Museum

Daniel B Reibel

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• Registration Methods for the Small Museum has been the definitive guide to registration methodology for small museums since 1978. The book covers all ... Lees meer

Editing Historical Documents

Michael E Stevens, Steven B Burg

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• This volume is aimed both at more experienced editors, who may wish to skip over the advice offered in the introduction, as well as at those who are n... Lees meer

Positioning Your Museum as a Critical Community Asset

• Hardcover | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• In this how-to guide, practitioners at cultural heritage venues share their experiences in building sustainable relationships with their geographic an... Lees meer

Preventive Conservation for Historic House Museums

Jane Merritt, Julie A Reilly

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• Preventive Conservation for Historic House Museums is a primer on the preventive care practices that these unique sites need to slow the rate of deter... Lees meer

Is Your Museum Grant-Ready?

Sarah Sutton

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• Grant funding is a critical part of museum life, yet to many it seems mysterious. This second edition of Is Your Museum Grant-Ready? isyour guide to a... Lees meer

Preservation Politics

William E Schmickle

• Paperback | Engels | American Association for State and Local History
• You've established a historic district in your town! Now what? Preservation Politics picks up where The Politics of Historic Districts leaves off, adv... Lees meer

The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

Teresa S. Moyer, Paul A. Shackel

• Paperback | American Association for State and Local History
• Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is most widely known for the attempted slave revolt led by John Brown in 1859, the nucleus for the interpretati... Lees meer