Museum Studies Links & Resources

Bay Area Museum Links

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.

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Professional Organization and Other Museum Resource Links

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Upcoming Museum Conferences 2009-2010

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Recommended Introductory Museum Studies Readings

    Gail Anderson
    Anderson G. (2004). (Ed.) Reinventing the Museum. Lanham, Maryland: AltaMira

    Roger Atwood
    Atwood, R. (2004). Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World. New York: St. Martin's Press.

    S. N. Behrman
    Behrman, S. N. (2003). Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time. New York: Little Bookroom.

    Rebecca A. Buck and Jean Allman Gillmore
    Buck, R.A., & Gilmore J. A., Ed. (1998). (Eds.) The New Museum Registration Methods. Washington D. C.: American Association of Museums.

    David Carr
    Carr, D. (2002). The Promise of Cultural Institutions. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.

    John Falk and Lynn Dierking
    _Falk, J. & Dierking. (2002). Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press. _

    Jim Collins
    Collins. J. (2001). Good to Great. New York: HarperCollins.

    Hugh Genoways and Lynne M. Ireland
    Genoways, H. & Ireland, L. M. (2004). Museum Administration: An Introduction. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.

    J. B. Jackson
    Jackson, J. B. (2003). Everyday America: Cultural Landscapes. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Elaine Heumann Gurian
    Gurian, E. H. (2006). Civilizing the Museum. New York: Routledge.

    Neil Harris
    Harris, N. (1990.) Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Thomas_Hoving
    Hoving, T. (1993) Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Simon and Schuster.

    Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine
    Karp, I., Kreamer C. M., & Lavine S. D. 1992. Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Washington & London: Smithsonian Institution Press.

    Ivan Karp, and Steven D. Lavine
    Karp I., & Lavine, S.D. (1991). Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. _

    E.L. Konigsburg
    Konigsberg, E. L. (2007). From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Fort Worth, Texas: Aladdin Publishing.

    Richard Kurin
    Kurin, R. (1997). Reflections of a Culture Broker. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. _

    Gail Dexter Lord and Barry Lord.
    Lord, G. D., & Lord, B. (1999). (Eds.) The Manual of Museum Planning. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.

    Kathleen McLean and Catherine McEver
    _McLean, K., & McEver, C. (2006). (Eds.) Are We There Yet? Conversations about Best Practices in Science Exhibition Development. San Francisco: Exploratorium.

    Andrew McClellan
    McClellan, A. (2008). The Art Museum From Boullee to Bilbao. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Joseph Pine II and James Gilmore
    Pine II, J., & Gilmore J. (1999). The Experience Economy. Boston: Harvard Business School.

    Lisa C. Roberts
    Roberts, L. C. (1997). From Knowledge to Narrative: Educators and the Changing Museum. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

    Marjorie Schwarzer
    Schwarzer, M. (2006). Riches, Rivals and Radicals: 100 Years of Museums in America. Washington D. C.: American Association of Museums.

    Mary Anne Staniszewski
    Staniszewski, M. A. (1998). The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

    Stephanie Weaver
    Weaver, S. (2007). Creating Great Visitor Experiences: A Guide for Museums Parks, Zoos, & Libraries. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.

    Lawrence Wechsler
    Wechsler, L. (1996). Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Curiosities: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology. New York: Vintage Books.

    Thomas Wolf
    Wolf, T. (1999). Managing a Nonprofit Organization in the 21st Century. New York: Simon and Schuster.

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