Mission Matters: Relevance and Museums in the 21st Century by Anderson, Gail

Mission Matters: Relevance and Museums in the 21st Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781538103487)

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Format: Paperback
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Mission Matters: Relevance and Museums in the 21st Century by Anderson, Gail

Mission Matters: Relevance and Museums in the 21st Century

$53.00
Mission Matters: Relevance and Museums in the 21st Century by Anderson, Gail

Mission Matters: Relevance and Museums in the 21st Century

$53.00
Format: Paperback
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Mission Matters sheds a fresh light on how to envision relevant and impactful museums. Anderson takes the understanding of mission relevance to a new level. The premise of the book reflects external contemporary realities and the need for museums to better position themselves as leaders and change agents in the greater landscape and diversity of people..

Anderson illustrates her points with numerous examples from the US and around the world. Features include essays by David Fleming from the UK who tackles the importance of mission and social issues, and Charmaine Jefferson who frames the complexities of cultural competence in the 21st century. Twenty museum leaders each share their institution's story of transformative change informed by reframing their mission. Anderson's methodology for the book, the Mission Alignment Framework, helps reference the thinking about missions and the subsequent changes within museums as they redirect their work. Eighty US and international mission statements reveal the range of museums disciplines and demographics from urban and rural, and styles of mission all illustrating relevance to their unique settings, institutional capacity, resources, and purpose. Complementing these examples are guidelines about how to rethink mission, a questioning strategy based on the Mission Alignment Framework, and, a range of useful tools from museums and leading thinkers in the field.

Mission Matters is useful to a wide range of readers and users from trustees to directors to staff from a wide range of museums regardless of size and stage of development and maturity. The book is an easily accessible reference for strategic planning, conversations about relevance and missions, and museums considering the reinvention of their museum for greater impact.

Author: Gail Anderson
ISBN-10: 1538103486
ISBN-13: 9781538103487
Publisher: American Alliance of Museums
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2019
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.44d
By Gail Anderson
By Gail Anderson
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Gail Anderson has dedicated much of her time over her 40+ year career researching, amassing and sharing resources and new ideas to advance the museum field. With all the pressures that museum leaders face on a daily basis, her goal has been to make resources easily available with practical and accessible approaches ad tools. Anderson, president of Gail Anderson & Associates (GA&A) works with museum leaders facilitating institutional transformation, building institutional and leadership capacity, and expanding community and global relevance. GA&A works with museums on strategic planning, organizational restructuring, institutional assessment and development, board development, as well as individual coaching. She has worked with more than 65+ clients and completed over 105+ projects, the majority of which are repeat clientele speaking to long-term relationships.

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