Museum Studies Links & Resources
- Bay Area Museum Links
- Professional Organization and Other Museum Resource Links
- Upcoming Museum Studies Conferences 2007
- Recommended Introductory Museum Studies Readings
The Bay Area museum community serves as an extended classroom for JFKU's museum studies students. Courses are frequently taught on-site in museums, and most assignments involve projects and research at local institutions. Assignments are designed to provide students with valuable practical experience, preparing them for the kinds of tasks they will perform as museum professionals. Guest lecturers in 2005 represented such diverse Bay Area museums as the Arab American Museum (Dearborn, MI), The Bay Area Discovery Museum, Chabot Space and Science Center, The Exploratorium, and the Oakland Museum of California, among others.
- Asian Art Museum
- Bay Area Discovery Museum
- Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Archives
- California Academy of Sciences
- California Historical Society
- Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens
- Chabot Space and Science Center
- Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center
- Children's Discovery Museum, San Jose
- Copia
- Coyote Point Museum for Environmental Education
- Crissy Field Center
- de Young Museum
- Directory of Museums and Archives at UC Berkeley
- Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
- Fioli
- Habitot
- Hall of Health
- Hayward Area Historical Society
- History of San Jose
- Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
- Lawrence Hall of Science
- Legion of Honor
- Lindsay Wildlife Museum
- Marin History Museum
- Monterrey Bay Aquarium
- Museum of African Diaspora
- Museum of Craft and Folk Art
- Oakland Museum of California
- Oakland Zoo in Knowland Park
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and Planetarium
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- San Francisco Zoo
- San Jose Museum of Art
- The Contemporary Jewish Museum
- The Exploratorium
- The Judah L. Magnes Museum
- The Society of California Pioneers
- The Tech Museum of Innovation
- Triton Museum of Art
- Zeum
Professional Organization and Other Museum Resource Links
- AAM-American Association of Museums
- Professional Organizations of Interest to Museum Professionals
- ACM-Association of Children's Museums
- AASLH-American Association of State and Local History
- ASTC-Association of Science-Technology Centers
- AZA-Association of Zoos and Aquaria
- CAM-California Association of Museums
- Getty Center
- ICOM-International Council of Museums
- IMLS-Institute of Museum and Library Services
- MCN-Museum Computer Network
- Museum Ed
- Museum Information Project, UC Berkeley
- Museum L
- Museum Jobs.com
- Museum Management Consultants
- National Art Education Association
- Virtual Library of Museums (ICOM)
- WMA-Western Museums Association
Upcoming Museum Studies Conferences 2007-2008
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February 20-23, 2008
CAA
College Art Association
Annual Conference 2008
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
http://www.collegeart.org February 25-27, 2008
CAM
The California Association of Museums
Annual Conference 2008
Fresno, CA
http://www.calmuseums.org April 8-12, 2008
Museums and the Web
Annual Conference 2008
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Future Conferences
April 14-18, 2009; Indianapolis, Indiana
April 13-17, 2010; Denver, Colorado
ACM
Association of Children's Museums
Let's Play: InterActivity 2008
Denver, CO
http://www.childrensmuseums.org April 27 - May 1, 2008
AAM
American Association of Museums
Annual Meeting 2008
Denver, CO
http://www.aam-us.org July 15 - 19, 2008
VSA
Visitor Studies Association
Annual Conference 2008
Houston, TX
http://www.visitorstudies.org September 9 - 12, 2008
AASLH
American Association for State and Local History
Annual Meeting 2007
Discovering the Power of Transformation
Rochester, NY
http://www.aaslh.org September 17 - 21, 2008
WMA
Western Museums Association
Annual Meeting 2008
No Limits: Museums Define the Future
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.westmuse.org
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Anderson, Gail ed.: Reinventing the Museum: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2004.
Buck, Rebecca A., and Jean Allman Gilmore, Ed. The New Museum Registration Methods. Washington D. C.: American Association of Museums, 1998.
Carr, David. The Promise of Cultural Institutions. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2003.
Falk, John and Lynn Dierking. Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press. 2002.
Genoways, Hugh and Lynne M. Ireland. Museum Administration: An Introduction. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2004.
Harris, Neil. Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1990.
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Hoving, Thomas. Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1993.
Karp, Ivan, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine. Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
Karp, Ivan and Steven D. Lavine. Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press,1991.
Kurin, Richard. Reflections of a Culture Broker. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Lord, Gail Dexter and Barry Lord. Ed. The Manual of Museum Planning. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 1999.
McLean, Kathleen and Catherine McEver, Ed. Are We There Yet? Conversations about Best Practices in Science Exhibition Development. San Francisco: Exploratorium, 2006.
Roberts, Lisa C. From Knowledge to Narrative: Educators and the Changing Museum. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Schwarzer, Marjorie. Riches, Rivals & Radicals 100 Years of Museums in America. Washington D. C: American Associations of Museums, 2006.
Staniszewski, Mary Anne: The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.
Weschler, Lawrence. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology. New York: Random House, 1995.