1st Edition

Financial Management in Museums Theory, Practice, and Context

Edited By Yuha Jung, Rachel Shane, Jaleesa Wells Copyright 2025
376 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Financial Management in Museums considers sustainable and innovative solutions to current museum financial challenges by analyzing the many changes and pressures affecting the museum field. Presenting diverse perspectives from a range of authors around the world, the book shares and compares different funding models and methods of museum financial management. Arguing that museums need to be... Read more

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List of Contributors

 

Chapter 1: Introduction to Contemporary Museum Financial Management

Yuha Jung, Rachel Shane, and Jaleesa Renee Wells

 

Part 1: Economic and Social Contexts of Museums

 

Chapter 2: Museum Funding: Moving up the Creative Economy Scale

Natalia Grincheva

 

Chapter 3: Social Accounting for Museum Progress

Jaleesa Renee Wells

 

Part 2: Financial Planning Standards

 

Chapter 4: Museum Revenues, Expenses, and Budgeting

Hristina Mikich

 

Chapter 5: Measuring Earned Revenue Performance of Museum Marketing

Hannah Grannemann

 

Chapter 6: Pricing for Admission and Other Programs

Rosie Siemer

 

Chapter 7: Free Admission and Accessibility in Museums

Hannah Grannemann

 

Part 3: Museum Finance Strategies and Sustainability

 

Chapter 8: Financial Function in Museums and Business Planning

Hristina Mikich

 

Chapter 9: Financial Considerations in Strategic Planning

Kaitlyn Hardiman

 

Chapter 10: Museums and Control Systems

Rebekah Beaulieu

 

Chapter 11: Legal and Ethical Considerations

Marek Prokůpek

 

Chapter 12: Museum Finances: Accounting for Capacity and Sustainability

Daniel Hummel and Leigh Hersey

 

Part 4: Innovative Museum Funding Practices

 

Chapter 13: Nonprofit Does Not Mean “No Profit”: An Overview of Smithsonian Enterprises (Formerly Smithsonian Business Ventures)

C. Lorenzo Evans III

 

Chapter 14: Alternative Financing and Funding Structures and Strategies

Marek Prokůpek

 

Chapter 15: Unique, One-Time, or Temporary Funding Opportunities: Mega-Event Legacy Activities as Funding Opportunities for Museums

Tiffany Bourgeois

 

Chapter 16: Mission-Based, Socially Driven Investment Strategies

Rebekah Beaulieu

 

Chapter 17: Pros and Cons of Corporate Sponsorship at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea (MMCA)

Geuntae Park

 

Part 5: External Influences and Technological Innovations

 

Chapter 18: Understanding the Financial Impact of Deaccessioning

Rachel Shane and Chris Burgess

 

Chapter 19: Funding through Policy Attachment: An Examination of Funding for the Dawson City Museum

Robin Nelson

 

Chapter 20: Contextualizing the Potential of NFTs in Financial Governance of Art Museums

Wen Guo

 

Chapter 21: The Distributed Museum: Using Smart Contracts and NFTs to Find Financial Equity in Co-Produced Exhibitions

Frances Liddell

 

Chapter 22: Accounting For Digital Assets in Museums: A Brief Discussion on Why, What, and How  

Ying Chong Wang

 

Glossary

 

Index

Biography

Dr. Yuha Jung is an associate professor and the director of graduate studies of Arts Administration at the University of Kentucky, USA.

Dr. Rachel Shane is the Department Chair and a Professor of Arts Administration at the University of Kentucky, USA.

Jaleesa Renee Wells Ph.D. is an artist, entrepreneur, and transdisciplinary scholar. She is an assistant professor of Arts Administration at the University of Kentucky, USA.