Museum Workers and Students

Links

A range of key Website links organised under the 8 sections of Museum Basics.

This page lists a number of websites which may be useful for smaller museums with limited resources. Vast quantities of information and advice are now available on the web – so much so that it is difficult to find one's way around (see Museum Basics Unit 109).

Have you found any websites that might be useful for colleagues in other museums? Please send the links to museumbasics@gmail.com and we will add them here. We would especially welcome sites based in Asia, Africa and Australasia.

The following links are presented as recommendations. All information on these websites are the responsibility of their administrator and may change over time. If you find any broken links or websites with inaccurate information, please let us know.

Section 1 - Introductory    

Virtual Library Museum Pages
http://archives.icom.museum/vlmp
A brave and idiosyncratic effort to list all the museums in the world which have an online presence. Inevitably there are huge numbers of museums which do not appear – for example, almost all the museums in Africa!

Section 2 - The museum and its users

Leicester University School of Museum Studies
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/rcmg
This site includes a rich variety of the School's recent projects and publications. It offers many ideas on engaging people who do not regularly visit museums.

Inspiring Learning for All
http://www.inspiringlearningforall.gov.uk
A framework for developing or improving a museum learning service.

World Federation of Friends of Museums (WFFM)
http://www.museumsfriends.com
An international non-profit, non-governmental organisation that unites and supports all Friends of museums around the world. Provides useful publications about setting up and managing Friends’ groups.

Section 3 - Interpreting collections

Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
http://www.chin.gc.ca
Valuable for its resources for web-based museum services, and as a portal to many other useful websites.

National Association for Museum Exhibition
http://name-aam.org/home
This US Association offers many of the back copies of its magazine Exhibitionist here.

Subject Specialist Networks
http://www.mla.gov.uk/what/programmes/renaissance/ssns
The future of the UK's network of museum specialist groups is uncertain, but they offer support and resources in a surprising variety of museum fields.

Social History Curators Group (SHCG)
http://www.shcg.org.uk
This UK-based site offers a wide range of training materials and other resources for history curators, including the ambitious 'FirstBASE' facility. (Crispin Paine, co-author of Museum Basics, is proud to have been SHCG's first Chair).

Association for Heritage Interpretation (AHI)
http://www.ahi.org.uk
This association is UK-based, with an emphasis on countryside interpretation. The 'find a supplier' section is potentially very useful, though a bit thin at present.

Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC)
http://astc.org/index.htm
This site’s 'resource center' offers lots of advice on developing interactive interpretation of science and technology.

Art History Resources
http://arthistoryresources.net/
A personal but very comprehensive and imaginative gateway to hundreds of websites of use to art historians throughout the world, including free images, museum sites, essays and notes of many different sorts.

Museums Association 'Find a Supplier'
http://www.museumsassociation.org/suppliers/find-a-supplier
The UK Museums Association's website includes a list of suppliers, who can in turn often provide invaluable information on museum equipment and materials.

Section 4 - Collecting and Collections

Collections Link
http://www.collectionslink.org.uk
A large site containing a very rich variety of resources for all aspects of the care and management of collections. Particularly valuable is the 'browse by subject' tab, which allows the user to find (for example) advice on caring for plastics. At first sight this site may seem particularly focused on the UK, but many of its resources are relevant to museums throughout the world.

International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)
http://www.iccrom.org/index.shtml
ICCROM is an intergovernmental organization (IGO) dedicated to the conservation of cultural heritage. Its website is valuable for its emphasis on all sorts of 'cultural heritage', from historic buildings to museum collections, in many different countries. It gives good attention to the needs in Africa and Asia. Note the training programme and unusual publications list.

Museums Association – Collections
http://www.museumsassociation.org/collections/monument-resources
The web contains all sorts of valuable information in many different corners. This site, for example, offers advice on interpreting marks (patent numbers etc.) on manufactured artefacts, and on dating historic photographs, amongst other things.

Section 5 - Managing and Caring for Collections

The Getty
http://www.getty.edu/
The Getty Research Institute has much useful material here (see especially 'Search tools and databases'), as does the Getty Conservation Institute. The site describes recent high-quality international projects, and focuses on built and buried heritage as well as on museums.

The Institute of Conservation (ICON)
http://www.icon.org.uk/index.php
ICON's website is a rich resource for museums as well as for conservators. Particularly valuable is the Chantry Library ‘Web Resources’ page, which offers links to many useful websites, and the ‘How to care for...’ page.

Heritage Preservation: the National Institute for Conservation
http://www.heritagepreservation.org
This US site has a good number of free publications to download. Strong on disaster preparation and response.

Australian Government
http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/publications/significance2-0/index.html
The groundbreaking publication Significance 2.0: a Guide to Assessing the Significance of Collections is now available here.

University College London (UCL)
http://www.museumsassociation.org/download?id=452315
The UCL Collections Review Toolkit by Jayne Dunn and Subhadra Das. A practical guide to carrying out a review of your museum’s collections.

Section 6 - The museum and its buildings

Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
http://www.architecture.com
RIBA's website has advice on finding and commissioning an architect, and their well-known Outline Plan of Work, often called the RIBA Stages.

Section 7 - The museum and its management               

Smithsonian: Museum Studies
http://museumstudies.si.edu
Some valuable resources for people planning museum training: reading lists, lists of museum organisations, links to curricula, etc. Particularly focused on the USA.

International Committee for the Training of Personnel (ICTOP)
http://www.ictop.org
ICOM's training committee website is assembling materials relating to the development of training programmes.

Association of Independent Museums (AIM)
http://www.aim-museums.co.uk
This UK-based site has many free advisory booklets on different aspects of managing smaller trustee-run museums available to download.

American Association for State and Local History
http://www.aaslh.org
AASLH is an association for US local history societies, so its impressive array of (mostly paid-for) publications and other resources are concerned with history research, conservation of historic buildings, heritage interpretation as well as the running of museums. Its Small Museums pages have some useful resources.

Section 8 - Supporting resources

International Council of Museums (ICOM)
http://icom.museum
ICOM's official website is most valuable for its links to ICOM's 171 national, international and other committees. Besides details of ICOM's conferences and other activities, the site carries ICOM's Code of Ethics and other useful resources. See the fascinating, distinctly French (but still very Eurocentric) approach of 'Key Concepts in Museology'.

University of Leicester Bookshop
http://shop.le.ac.uk/browse/category.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=9
The bookshop's catalogue here functions as a useful guide to books on museums and museum studies.

Taylor and Francis – Routledge
http://routledge.com
The publisher’s catalogue features a wide range of books and journals on museum studies and companion websites that complement the coverage of Museum Basics.

Museums and the Web Conference
http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html
The papers from the annual international conference on all aspects of the web relating to museums. A valuable source of information for those wanting to keep up-to-date with developments in the use of new technologies in the museum context.

Flashcards

A set of 61 Flashcards based on the Glossary in Museum Basics.

Photographs

A developing resource drawn from museums worldwide.

Do you have any photographs of your museum work that you are proud of, or that might inspire or help other museum workers? We would be pleased to receive them for consideration for the website. All aspects of museum work are of interest, reflecting the range and coverage of topics in Museum Basics.

Any photographs selected will be fully acknowledged and referenced to the relevant unit(s) in the text.

We invite you to send your photographs electronically to: museumbasics@gmail.com. This gallery will then be updated periodically with your images.

Bibliography

A range of key published sources organised under the 8 sections of Museum Basics.

There is an increasingly wide range of publications available about different aspects of the theory and practice of museum work. The books here represent a good selection from which a small to medium-sized museum may choose a number of key texts to develop a working library. They are all in the English language and are listed with their ISBN numbers for reference purposes. The list has been arranged in sections to reflect the structure of Museum Basics, although in a number of cases you will find that books cover more than one area of interest. The list does not include the wide range of journals relevant to museum work which should also be considered in building a museum library. Discussion of other sources of information for the museum can be found in Units 108–109.

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTORY

American Association of Museums (AAM) Codes of Ethics and Practice of Interest to Museums, AAM, 2000, ISBN 0931201691.
Baghli, S., Boylan, P. and Herreman, Y. History of ICOM (1946–1996), ICOM, 1998, ISBN 9290122439.
Brophy, S. and Wylie, E. The Green Museum, AltaMira, 2008, ISBN 9780759111653.
Carbonell, B. M. (ed.) Museum Studies in Context, Blackwell Publishers, 2003, ISBN 0631228306.
Claxton, G. Wise Up: Learning to Live the Learning Life, Bloomsbury, 1999, ISBN 185539099X.
Davis, P. Ecomuseums: A Sense of Place, Leicester University Press, 1999, ISBN 0718502086.
Edson, G. Museum Ethics, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0415152909.
Forrest, C. International Law and the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Routledge, 2007, ISBN 9780415467810.
Genoways, H. (ed.) Museum Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century, AltaMira Press, 2006, ISBN 9780759107540.
Gibson, L. and Pendlebury, J. (eds) Valuing Historic Environments, Ashgate, 2009, ISBN 9780754674245.
Hein, H. S. The Museum in Transition: A Philosophical Perspective, Smithsonian Institution, 2000, ISBN 1560983965.
International Council of Museums (ICOM) Code of Ethics, ICOM, 2005.
Kavanagh, G. and Frostick, E. (eds) Making City Histories in Museums, Leicester University Press, 2001, ISBN 0718502728.
Knell, S., Macleod, S. and Watson, S. (eds) Museum Revolutions: How Museums Change and are Changed, Routledge, 2007, ISBN 9780415444675.
Knell, S. National Museums: New Studies from Around the World, Routledge, 2010, ISBN 9780415547741.
Kreps, C. F. Liberating Culture: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Museums, Curation and Heritage Preservation, Routledge, 2003, ISBN 0415250269.
Marstine, J. C. The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, 2011, ISBN 9780415566124.
Mauries, P. Cabinets of Curiosities, Thames & Hudson, 2002, ISBN 0500510911.
Merriman, N. (ed.) Public Archaeology, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0415258898.
Message, K. New Museums and the Making of Culture, Berg, 2006, ISBN 9781845204549.
Pearce, S. M. (ed.) Museums and Their Development: The European Tradition 1700–1900, Routledge, 1998, ISBN 0415193079.
Spalding, J. The Poetic Museum: Reviving Historic Collections, Prestel, 2002, ISBN 3791326783.
Thompson, P. Voice of the Past: Oral History, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0192893173.
Weil, S. E. Making Museums Matter, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002, ISBN 1588340007.
West, S. Understanding Heritage in Practice, Manchester University Press, 2010, ISBN 9780719081545.
Witcomb, A. Re-imaging the Museum: Beyond the Mausoleum, Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0415220998.

SECTION 2: THE MUSEUM AND ITS USERS

Black, G. The Engaging Museum: Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 041534557X.
Chadwick, A. and Stannett, A. Museums and Adults Learning: Perspectives from Europe, National Institute for Adult Continuing Education, 2001, ISBN1862010218.
Diamond, J. et al. Practical Evaluation Guide: Tools for Museums and Other Informational Educational Settings, AltaMira Press, 2009, ISBN 9780759113039.
Crooke, E. Museums and Community: Ideas, issues and Challenges, Routledge, 2008, ISBN 9780415336574.
Dodd, J. and Sandell, R. (eds) Including Museums: Perspectives on Museums, Galleries and Social Inclusion, Department of Museum Studies, University ofLeicester, 2001, ISBN 189848919X.
Durbin, G., Morris, S. and Wilkinson, S. A Teacher’s Guide to Learning from Objects, English Heritage, 1990, ISBN 1850742596.
Errington, S. (ed.) Using Museums and Centres to Popularise Science and Technology, Commonwealth Secretariat, 2001, ISBN 0850926688.
Falk, J. Identity and the Museum Experience, Left Coast Press, 2009, ISBN 9781598741636.
Falk, J. and Dierking, L. (eds) Lessons Without Limit: How Free-choice Learning is Transforming Education, AltaMira Press, 2000, ISBN 0795101604.
Falk, J., Dierking, L. and Foutz, S. (eds) In Principle, In Practice: Museums as Learning Institutions, AltaMira Press, 2007, ISBN 9780759109773.
Falk, J. and Sheppard, B. Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions, AltaMira Press, 2006, ISBN9780759107588.
French, Y. and Runyard, S. Marketing and Public Relations for Museums, Galleries, Cultural and Heritage Attractions, Routledge, 2011, ISBN 9780415610469.
Hein, G. E. Learning in the Museum, Routledge, 1998, ISBN 0415097762.
Hooper-Greenhill, E. The Educational Role of the Museum, Routledge, 1999, ISBN 9780415198271.
Hooper-Greenhill, E. Museums and Education: Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance, Routledge, 2007, ISBN 9780415379366.
International Council of Museums (ICOM) Code of Ethics, ICOM, 2005.
Jones, I. et al. City Museums and City Development, AltaMira Press, 2008, ISBN 9780759111806.
Kotler, N. et al. Museum Marketing and Strategy Jossey Bass, 2008, ISBN 9780787996918.
Lang, C. et al. The Responsive Museum: Working with Audiences in the Twenty-First Century, Ashgate, 2006, ISBN 9780754645603.
Lord, B. The Manual of Museum Learning, AltaMira Press, 2007, ISBN 9780759109711.
McLean, F. Marketing the Museum, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0415152933.
Merriman, N. Beyond the Glass Case: The Past, the Heritage and the Public, University of London, Institute of Archaeology, 2000, ISBN 0905853377.
Noble, W. and Lord, G. Access for Disabled People to Arts Premises: The Journey Sequence, Butterworth-Heinmann, 2003, ISBN 0750657790.
Peers, L. and Brown, A. K. (eds) Museums and Source Communities, Routledge, 2003, ISBN 9780415280525.
Sandell, R. (ed.) Museums, Society, Inequality, Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0415260604.
Sandell, R. Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference, Routledge, 2007, ISBN 9780415367493.
Sandell, R. and Janes, R. R. (eds) Museum Management and Marketing, Routledge, 2006, ISBN 9780415396295.
Silverman, L. The Social Work of Museums, Routledge, 2009, ISBN 9780415775212.
Talboys, G. K. Using Museums as an Educational Resource, Ashgate, 2010, ISBN 9781409401452.
Talboys, G. K. Museum Educator’s Handbook, Ashgate, 2011, ISBN 9781409401520.
Theobald, M. M. Museum Store Management, AltaMira Press, 2001, ISBN 9780742504318.
Wallace, M. A. Museum Branding: How to Create and Maintain Image, Loyalty and Support, AltaMira Press, 2006, ISBN 9780759109933.
Xanthoudaki, M., Tickle, L. and Sekules, V. (eds) Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries: An International Reader, Kluwer Academic Publishers,2003, ISBN 1402016379.

SECTION 3: INTERPRETING COLLECTIONS

Caulton, T. Hands-on Exhibitions: Managing Interactive Museums and Science, Routledge, 1998, ISBN 0415165229.
Cere, R. Museums of Cinema and their Audience, Routledge, 2009, ISBN 9780415432252.
Chatterjee, H. (ed.) Touch in Museums: Policy and Practice in Object Handling, Berg, 2008, ISBN 9781847882387.
Cunningham, M. K. Interpreters’ Training Manual for Museums, AAM, 2004, ISBN 093120190X.
Dean, D. Museum Exhibition: Theory and Practice, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 9780415080170.
Dernie, D. Exhibition Design, Laurence King, 2010, ISBN 9781856695220.
Donnelly, J. F. (ed.) Interpreting Historic House Museums, AltaMira Press, 2002, ISBN 0759102511.
Goodacre, B. and Baldwin, G. Living the Past: Reconstruction, Recreation, Re-enactment and Education at Museums and Heritage Sites, Middlesex UniversityPress, 2002, ISBN 1898253439.
Greengrass, M. and Hughes, L. (eds) The Virtual Representation of the Past, Ashgate, 2008, ISBN 9780754672883.
Hems, A. and Blockley, M. Heritage Interpretation, Routledge, 2006, ISBN 9780415237970.
Hooper-Greenhill, E. Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture, Routledge, 2000, ISBN 0415086337.
Hughes, P. Exhibition Design, Laurence King, 2010, ISBN 9781856696401.
Kalay, Y. et al. New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage, Routledge, 2008, ISBN 9780415773560.
Kalfatovic, M. R. Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, ALA Editions, 2002, ISBN 0838908179.
Lord, B. and Dextor-Lord, G. (eds) The Manual of Museum Exhibitions, AltaMira Press, 2001, ISBN 0759102341.
MacDonald, S. The Politics of Display: Museums, Science and Culture, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 0415153263.
MacDonald, S. and Baru, P. Exhibition experiments, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007, ISBN 9781405130776.
McManus, P. M. Archaeological Displays and the Public: Museology and Interpretation, Archetype Publications, 2000, ISBN 1873132670.
Miles, R. S. The Design of Educational Exhibits, Routledge, 2001, ISBN 0415239648.
Parman, A. and Flowers, J. J. Exhibit Makeovers: A Do-it-Yourself Workbook for Small Museums, AltaMira Press, 2008, ISBN 9780759109971.
Parry, R. Museums in a Digital Age, Routledge, 2009, ISBN 9780415402620.
Pearce, S. (ed.) Interpreting Objects and Collections, Routledge, 1994, ISBN 0415112893.
Pye, E. (ed.) The Power of Touch: Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Contexts, Left Coast Press, 2008, ISBN 9781598743043.
Ravelli, L. Museum Texts: Communication Frameworks, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 9780415284301.
Sachatello-Sawyer, B. et al. Adult Museum Programs: Designing Meaningful Experiences, AltaMira Press, 2002, ISBN 0759100977.
Serrell, B. Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach, AltaMira Press, 1996, ISBN 0761991069.
Serrell, B. Judging Exhibitions: A Framework for Assessing Excellence, Left Coast Press, 2006, ISBN 9781598740325.
Tallon, L. and Walker, K. (eds) Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media, AltaMira Press, 2008, ISBN 9780759111219.
Velarde, G. Designing Exhibitions: Museums, Heritage, Trade and World Fairs, Ashgate, 2001, ISBN 0566083175.

SECTION 4: COLLECTING AND COLLECTIONS

Belk, R. W. Collecting in a Consumer Society, Routledge, 2001, ISBN 0415258480.
Clavir, M. Preserving What is Valued: Museums and First Nations, University of British Columbia Press, 2002, ISBN 0774808616.
Dudley, S. (ed.) Museum Materialities: Objects, Engagements, Interpretations, Routledge, 2009, ISBN 9780415492188.
Edwards, E., Gosden, C. and Philips, R. Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture, Berg, 2006, ISBN 9781845203245.
Fforde, C., Hubert, J. and Turnbull, P. (eds) The Dead and Their Possessions: Repatriation in Principle, Policy and Practice, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0415344492.
Hamling, T. and Richardson, C. Everyday Objects, Ashgate, 2010, ISBN 9780754666370.
Knell, S. J. Museums and the Future of Collecting, Ashgate, 2004, ISBN 0754630056.
Knell, S. J. Museums in the Material World, Routledge, 2007, ISBN 9780415416993.
Legget, J. Restitution and Repatriation: Guidelines for Good Practice, Resource: The Council for Museums, 2000, ISBN 0948630914.
MacGregor, A. Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, Yale University Press, 2007, ISBN9780300124934.
Mack, J. Museum of the Mind: Art and Memory in World Cultures, British Museum Press, 2003, ISBN 0714126373.
Paine, C. Godly Things: Museums, Objects and Religion, Leicester University Press, 1999, ISBN 0718501535.
Pearce, S. Objects of Knowledge, Athlone Press, 1990, ISBN 0485900017.
Pearce, S. On Collecting: An Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition, Routledge, 1995, ISBN 0415075610.
Pearce, S. Collecting in Contemporary Practice, Sage, 2007, ISBN 9780761950813.
Smith, L. and Akagawa, N. (eds) Intangible Heritage, Routledge, 2008, ISBN 9780415473965.
Waterton, E. and Watson, S. Culture, Heritage and Representation: Perspectives on Visuality and the Past, Ashgate, 2010, ISBN 9780754675983.

SECTION 5: MANAGING AND CARING FOR COLLECTIONS

Ashley-Smith, J. Risk Assessment for Object Conservation, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999, ISBN 0750628537.
Bachmann, K. (ed.) Conservation Concerns: A Guide for Collectors and Curators, Smithsonian Institution, 1992, ISBN 1560981741.
Buck, R. A. and Gilmore, J. A. (eds) The New Museum Registration Methods, AAM, 1998, ISBN 9780931201318.
Butler, C. and Davies, M. (eds) Things Fall Apart: Museum Conservation in Practice, National Museums & Galleries of Wales, 2006, ISBN 9780720005592.
Caple, C. Objects: Reluctant Witnesses to the Past, Routledge, 2006, ISBN 9780415305891.
Cassman, V. et al. Human Remains: Guide for Museums and Academic Institutions, AltaMira Press, 2006, ISBN 9780759109544.
Corr, S. Caring for Collections: A Manual of Preventive Conservation, The Heritage Council, 2000, ISBN 1901137244.
Dewe, M. (ed.) Local Studies Collection Management, Ashgate, 2002, ISBN 0566083655.
Fahy, A. Collections Management, Routledge, 1995, ISBN 0415112834.
Gardner, J. B. and Merritt, E. E. The AAM Guide to Collections Planning, AAM, 2004, ISBN 0931201888.
Hatchfield, P. B. Pollutants in the Museum Environment: Practical Strategies for Problem Solving in Design, Exhibition and Storage, Archetype Publications, 2002,ISBN 1873132964.
Holm, S. A. Facts and Artefacts: How to Document a Museum Collection, Museum Documentation Association, 2000, ISBN 1900642050.
Keene, S. Managing Conservation in Museums, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002, ISBN 0750656034.
Knell, S. Care of Collections, Routledge, 1994, ISBN 0415112850.
Lavendrine, B. A Guide to the Preventive Conservation of Photograph Collections, Getty Conservation Institute, 2003, ISBN 0892367016.
Mackay, N. Curating Oral History: What to do after the Interview, Left Coast Press, 2006, ISBN 9781598740585.
Merritt, J. and Reilly, J. A. Preventive Conservation for Historic House Museums, AltaMira Press, 2010, ISBN 9780759112179.
Paine, C. (ed.) Standards in the Museum Care of Archaeological Collections, Museums & Galleries Commission, 1992, ISBN 0948630159.
Paine, C. (ed.) Standards in the Museum Care of Biological Collections, Museums & Galleries Commission, 1992, ISBN 0948630183.
Paine, C. (ed.) Standards in the Museum Care of Geological Collections, Museums & Galleries Commission, 1994, ISBN 0948630205.
Paine, C. (ed.) Standards in the Museum Care of Larger and Working Objects, Museums & Galleries Commission, 1994, ISBN 0948630264.
Paine, C. (ed.) Standards in the Museum Care of Musical Instruments, Museums & Galleries Commission, 1995, ISBN 0948630337.
Paine, C. (ed.) Standards in the Museum Care of Photographic Collections, Museums & Galleries Commission, 1996, ISBN 0948630426.
Paine, C. (ed.) Standards in the Museum Care of Costume and Textile Collections, Museums & Galleries Commission, 1998, ISBN 0948630590.
Pinniger, D., Meyer, A. and Townsend, A. Pest Management in Museums, Archives and Historic Houses, Archetype, 2001, ISBN 9781873132869.
Pinniger, D. Pest Management: A Practical Guide, Cambridge: Collections Trust, 2008, ISBN-10: 1900642174, ISBN-13: 978-1900642170.
Pye, E. Caring for the Past: Issues in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums, James & James, 2000, ISBN 1902916107.
Reibel, D. Registration Methods for the Small Museum, AltaMira Press, 2008, ISBN 9780759111318.
Russell, R. and Winkworth, K. Significance 2.0: A Guide to Assessing the Significance of Collections, Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, 2010, ISBN 9780977544363.
Simmons, J. Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies, American Association of Museums, 2006, ISBN 9781933253039.
Thickett, D. and Lee, L. R. Selection of Materials for the Storage or Display of Museum Objects, British Museum Press, 2004, ISBN 0861591178.

SECTION 6: THE MUSEUM AND ITS BUILDINGS

Chitty, G. and Baker, D. Managing Historic Sites and Buildings, Routledge, 1999, ISBN 0415208157.
Crimm, W. et al. Planning Successful Museum Building Projects, AltaMira Press, 2009, ISBN 9780759111875.
Dorge, V. and Jones, S. Building an Emergency Plan: A Guide for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions, Getty Trust, 1999, ISBN 089236551X.
Giebelhausen, M. (ed.) The Architecture of the Museum, Manchester University Press, 2003, ISBN 0719056101.
Lord, B. and Lord, G. D. Manual of Museum Planning, The Stationery Office, 1999, ISBN 011702659X.
MacLeod, S. (ed.) Reshaping Museum Space: Architecture, Design, Exhibitions, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 9780415343459.

SECTION 7: THE MUSEUM AND ITS MANAGEMENT

American Association of Museums (AAM) Museum Job Descriptions and Organizational Charts, AAM, 1999, ISBN 0931201616.
American Association of Museums (AAM) Museum Visitor Services Manual: Resource Report, AAM, 2001, ISBN 0931201772.
Anderson, G. (ed.) Museum Mission Statements: Building a Distinct Identity, AAM, 1997, ISBN 0931201411.
Burcaw, G. E. Introduction to Museum Work, AltaMira Press, 2007, ISBN 9780761989264.
Corsane, G. (ed.) Heritage, Museums and Galleries: An Introductory Reader, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0415289467.
Fitzherbert, L. Effective Fundraising: An Informal Guide to Getting Donations and Grants, Directory of Social Change, 2004, ISBN 1903991404.
Genoways, H. H. and Ireland, L. M. Museum Administration: An Introduction, AltaMira Press, 2003, ISBN 0759102945.
George, G. Starting Right: A Basic Guide to Museum Planning, AltaMira Press, 2004, ISBN 075910557X.
Hill, L. and Whitehead, B. Complete Membership Handbook: A Guide to Managing Friends’, Members’ and Supporters’ Schemes, Directory of Social Change, 2004,ISBN 1903991501.
Kotler, P. and Kotler, N. Museum Strategy and Marketing: Designing Missions, Building Audiences, Generating Revenue and Resources, Jossey-Bass, 1998, ISBN0787909122.
Lawrie, A. The Complete Guide to Business and Strategic Planning for Voluntary Organisations, Directory of Social Change, 2001, ISBN 190036087X.
Lord, B. and Lord, G. D. The Manual of Museum Management, AltaMira Press, 2009, ISBN 9780759111981.
Lord, G. D. and Markert, K. The Manual of Strategic Planning for Museums, AltaMira Press, 2007, ISBN 9780759109698.
Skramstad, H. and Skramstad, S. A Handbook for Museum Trustees, AAM, 2003, ISBN 0931201837.
Stiff, M. Managing New Technology Projects in Museums and Galleries, Museum Documentation Association, 2002, ISBN 1900642107.
Suchy, S. Leading with Passion: Change Management in the 21st Century Museum, AltaMira Press, 2003, ISBN 0759103666.
Yao, C. et al. Handbook for Small Science Centres, AltaMira Press, 2006, ISBN 9780759106536.

SECTION 8: SUPPORTING RESOURCES

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