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Museum Studies & Arts Management

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See also: Museums & Galleries, Arts Organizations, and Arts Employment chapters of this site.

American Association of Museums --> Home and Resources page

ACA: American Council for the Arts --> Extensive Online Resources

Arts Council of Great Britain --> Home Page

UNESCO World Heritage Center --> Home Page

Arts Management Resource Center--> Includes Links to Art Service Organizations, Communication and Information Forums, Demographic Information, Arts-in Education, Business, Government, Economic Information, Marketing, Management, and Legal Resources (Carnegie Mellon U)

Arts Policy and Management Resources --> City University, London

Artsnet --> Arts management information

Artswire --> Arts Communication Site (NY Foundation for the Arts)

ICCROM --> Home Page of The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property

Institute of Museum and Library Services --> Federal Agency's Homepage

Ministère de la culture, France --> Administative Directory

The Museum Professional

Museum Reference Center --> Includes Museum Resources, Selected Museum Exhibitions, Education Resources, Professional Resources, Museum Foundation and Grant Information, Museum Conservation and Preservation Resources, and proceedings from "Museums for a New Millenium", a symposium given in September 1996. (Smithsonian Instititution)

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies --> Home Page

National Endowment for the Arts --> Home Page

United States Information Agency --> Links to Arts Programs

International Treaties, Conventions and Recommendations
ICOM Code of Professional Ethics
ICOM Program 1995-2004
ICOM Resolutions 1995
US Code: Title 20--Education incl. Chapter 3: National Museums and Art Galleries
US Executive Order 11593
Museum and Library Service Act of 1996 --> courtesy IMLS
Declaration of Principles of Tolerance, UNESCO
Communiqués of the Ministère de la culture, France
Excellence and Equity: New Visions --> outlines the AAM's policy on education and public service.
NATO Parnership for Peace Communiqué on Cultural Heritage Protection in Wartime
NEA 1965-1995: A Brief Chronology of Federal Involvement in the Arts
NEA Annual Report 1994
Policy Statements Index Page --> City University, London, Arts Policy & Management Department
Tokyo Resolution
Paper on UNIDROIT Convention 1995 by Marina Schneider, and Text of the Convention --> Convention on Stolen Art Objects
UNESCO Constitution and Legal Instruments
World Heritage Convention --> Full text of 1972 Convention on World Heritage, UNESCO

See also: General Resources: Bibliographic Resources

Museum Administration Subject Headings in the Vassar College Libraries Catalog

Smithsonian Institution Libraries Union Catalog

Museum Studies Database --> "This database contains bibliographic citations to theses and dissertations on museum theory and practice, and to articles indexed from the ALI-ABA proceedings and course of Study in Museum Administration, and from the Journal of Museum Education (JME)." (Smithsonian Institution).

ACA National Arts Policy Clearinghouse --> Abstracts of thousands of reports available from the American Council on the Arts

ACA Update -- Newsletter tracking arts legislation

City University, London: Theses and Dissertations --> listing only

Journals and Journal Articles in Museum Informatics --> a listing

Museum-L Archives -->Search using term "job"

NEA Publications Listings

"Arts.community" Archives -->Archive to the NEA's online newsletter

(NOTE: For Internships see Arts Employment).

Occupational Outook Handbook: Curators & Archivists
Peterson's Arts Administration and Museum Studies Listings
Smithsonian Institution Center for Museum Studies --> Courses, Fellowships, Internships, Information, Professional Support
Carnegie Mellon Center for Arts Managment and Technology
Bard Center for Curatorial Studies including Annual Visiting Lecture Schedule
Bolz Center for Arts Administration
City U, London: Arts Policy & Management Program
U Victoria, Canada: Cultural Resource Management Program

Workshops:

AAM Professional Education Seminars --> " a diverse schedule of intensive seminars covering a wide range of topics of current interest to museum leadership and professional staff."
Center for Museum Studies Workshops --> "annual Smithsonian series of workshops in basic museum operations."

ICOM-CIDOC --> Site of the International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums, including:

Museum Information Standards
Museums & Cultural Heritage Information Standards Resource Guide
"International Guidelines for Museum Object Information"
Draft International Core Data Standard for Archaeological Sites and Monuments
"Introduction to Multimedia in Museums"
International Organizations Relevant to Museum Documentation

Museum Computer Network

Getty Information Institute --> including:

"Introduction to Imaging" --> an online essay by Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant
"Protecting Cultural Objects Through International Documentation Standards" --> online report by Robin Thornes
Cyberspace / PublicSpace --> Three papers examining the role of the arts and culture in defining the public sphere of the information age.
Arts & Technology Summit Meeting Report --> Carnegie Mellon U
Museum Educational Site Licensing Project
Categories for the Description of Works of Art Initiative
The Los Angeles Concept --> blueprint for a community network for L.A.

Museum Documentation Association --> "The Museum Documentation Association is funded by the Museums and Galleries Commission to encourage best practice in all aspects of museum documentation. This task has many aspects, and perhaps the simplest way to understand it is to say that we do for documentation what the MGC does for a broader range of museum issues." Site Includes:

Spectrum: The UK Museum Documentation Standard
Outreach Resources
Documentation Factsheets
Publications Listing

"Museum Collections and the Information Superhighway" --> Proceedings from a conference held May 10, 1995 at the Science Museum, London

Thesauri:

Iconclass
Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials --> Library of Congress Classification

Foundation Center Home Page --> Information about researching foundations, as well as the Philanthropy News and lists of Foundation Forum publications.

Council of Foundations --> Association of foundations which "serves the public good" by promoting and enhancing effective and responsive philanthropy.

National Coalition of United Art Funds --> a national service organization committed to fostering and promoting united fund raising for arts and cultural organizations and program

National Endowment for the Humanities --> National Endowment for the Humanities Home Page includes information on grants programs, applications, and deadlines; and access to NEH publications.

United States Information Agency --> US Information Agency Home Page, listing Fulbright Scholarship programs, and student exchange programs.

The Grant Seeker's Resource Center

ArtDaily --> News of recent sales, trends

Auctions Online --> summary of art auctions with links

Australian Art Sales Digest --> lists over 70,000 works by more than 3,500 artists who have either lived or worked in Australia, offered for sale by auction in Australia from 1988 to 1995.

Sotheby's
Christies
Phillips
Bonham's
William Doyle

ICOM-Announce and ICOM-L --> ICOM has two lists about its work: ICOM-Announce, a general announcements list and ICOM-L, an open discussion list concerning issues relating to ICOM and its activities. To subscribe to the lists, send a message 'subscribe ICOM-Announce yourfirstname yourlastname' or 'subscribe ICOM-L firstname lastname' to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com. The list archive is also accessible.

CIDOC-L --> CIDOC has established a museum documentation discussion group (CIDOC-L). Launched during the 1994 conference, CIDOC-L is an electronic forum for the discussion of museum documentation issues. To subscribe to the list, send a message 'subscribe CIDOC-L firstname lastname' to listserv@nrm.se.

ICOM-CC distribution list --> The ICOM Conservation Committee (ICOM-CC) has set up a discussion list. To subscribe, send a message 'subscribe ICOM-CC yourfirstname yourlastname' to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com.

Museum-L --> General information about museum issues can be obtained from the Museum-L discussion list, maintained by John Chadwick, New Mexico Museum of Natural History. The list generates around 50 messages a day. To join, send an e-mail message to: 'listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com' with the text 'subscribe museum-l firstname lastname'. The list archives are also accessible.

MUSWEB-L --> Launched in April 1996, the Museum Web Development List, MUSWEB-L, is a forum for the discussion of all issues related to the development of World Wide Web services at museums. This includes administrative concerns in the maintenance of Web sites as well as technical matters relating to the authorship and transfer of hypertext documents. Additional network services commonly accessed from the Web environment using mailto, ftp, and gopher URLs also lie within the scope of the list. This includes technical issues which do not do not relate directly to the Web, such as the maintenance of Gopher and FTP services, and e-mail distribution lists. MUSWEB-L is being provided to serve those who are professionally involved with the maintenance of Internet services at museums. To subscribe to the list, send a message 'subscribe MUSWEB-L firstname lastname' to listserv@nrm.se.

Conservation discussion list --> Established in 1987, the Conservation list covers all aspects of the work of conservators. To subscribe to the list, send an e-mail request to Walter Henry (whenry@lindy.stanford.edu).

MCN-L --> MCN-L, the Museum Computer Network discussion list, was launched in November 1995. Contact Michele Devine (mdevine@cni.org) for MCN details or Kathy Jones-Garmil for MCN-L information. Participation is restricted to MCN members.

MCG-L --> The UK Museum Computer Group has set up a discussion list, as a forum for the discussion of the use of computers in museum contexts. To subscribe, send a message with two lines: subscribe mcg firstname lastname stop to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk. AAT-L --> AAT-L, the discussion list about the Art & Architecture Thesaurus. To join, send an e-mail message to: 'listserv@uicvm.uic.edu' with the text 'subscribe aat-l firstname lastname'.

Museum & Gallery Links

See: Museums & Galleries Page