What’s New in Museums
11 easy ways to protect your museum from heap-sprawl
Throughout Minnesota, it’s the time of year for the great fall clean-up. When the days are getting shorter and the temps are dropping, Mother Nature tells us it’s time to prepare for winter. With the great Halloween Blizzard of 1991, it was more like she screamed it at us, but she got her point across. Blizzards and subzero temps are around the corner, so finish up those outside projects before they’re buried in snow until spring. Lake weather is behind us, so why not take a lovely autumn week for tidying up and getting organized?
Refreshing a Gallery with New Components (pt. 2 of 2)
It was crucial that the new components of this expansion fit the vision, look and feel of the existing gallery and the museum. As we developed the interpretive plan, the museum’s values, goals, mission, and vision served as filters and guideposts to make sure that the added components would support and strengthen the visitor experience.
Refreshing a Gallery with New Components
Keeping up your children’s museum’s visitor experience means keeping up your exhibits. Your goals might include a commitment to new offerings, with changing programming and periodically adding new and interesting exhibit components to their existing exhibits.
Top Three Take-Aways for Onboarding Your First Executive Director
You’re a major step closer to finally realizing your dream: opening an amazing children’s museum for your community. Your first ED’s start-date has been set, and you can visualize your to-do list being cut in half, thanks to the miracle of paid employment. But wait a minute — You don’t have an HR department on staff yet, so it falls to you and the rest of the volunteer board of directors to train this new person!