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Description of  Positioning Your Museum as a Critical Community Asset: A Practical Guide (American Association for State and Local History)

1442275707 epub In this how-to guide, practitioners at cultural heritage venues share their experiences in building sustainable relationships with their geographic and demographic communities. The volume includes practical discussions of activity types that museums can employ to build relationships with their communities including education, advocacy, co-creative, while serving as a community asset and resource. Case studies include direct application of successes and lessons learned with an emphasis on small to medium sized institutions with limited staff and budgets. Highlights include: Thematic discussions on topics such as building an advocacy network between the museum and community developing cultural heritage institutions as critical and essential components of educational systems museum response to community expressed needs through a co-creative approach the varied means for developing community members as cultural heritage stakeholders and positioning the cultural heritage institution as an integral community asset. Read more