Sustainable Museums: Strategies for the 21st Century
£45
Among the key topics covered in the book’s information-rich 380 pages are:
- Developing a sustainability vision for your own museum
- The importance of leadership – and achieving it at every level
- Finding and bringing your sustainability team together
- Undertaking your sustainability audit and discovering where you are
- Determining where you want to get to
- Developing a sustainability strategy for your museum
- Setting and achieving critical targets and milestones
- Developing the policies and plans which will support your strategy
- Letting the world know – communicating your sustainability
- Overcoming the inevitable implementation problems
- Where do you go next?
Strategies
Introduction
A Short History of Sustainability
Your Vision
Developing a Foundation for Leadership
Get Your Team Together
Assess Your Impact
Developing a Sustainability Strategy
Targets and Milestones
Developing Policies and Plans
Communicating Sustainability
Implementation
Conclusion
Educated in New York and London, Rachel Madan is a leading international expert in museum sustainability and founder of Greener Museums. She has worked with Tate, the Department of Culture Media & Sport, National Museums Liverpool, National Library of Scotland and many other organisations large and small in the UK and USA.
Rachel is currently Sustainability Officer at the International Finance Corporation (a member of the World Bank Group), Washington DC.
"She [Rachel Madan] engenders fresh thinking and applies new solutions that are helping us achieve real change…" Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate.
Sustainable Museums provides solid foundational information for greening museums. It is a mix of the author’s work and a solid list of contributed cases from museums, trusts and agencies in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Denmark and Kenya.
Madan’s suggestions on developing vision, identifying barriers and ‘drivers for change’, and creating strategic communication methods and sustainability steering groups, caught my eye. I particularly like that in her suggestions, as well as the case studies, that there is very little green ‘bling’ and very much an emphasis on efficiencies, collaboration, and sound baseline information.
Among the cases’ great stories I found many valuable snippets I’d hope the field could emulate. They were a pleasure to read, and a shot of inspiration. Some days I feel I am banging my head against the wall, and others I feel at least I’m not doing it alone!
Sarah Brophy, Sustainable Museums Blog
Title: Sustainable Museums: Strategies for the 21st Century
Author: Rachel Madan
Pages: 380
Illustrations: 90
Size: 216 x 140mm
Date: 2011
Editions: £44.95 [paperback], £89.95 [hardback]
ISBN: 978-1-907697-09-8 [paperback]
ISBN: 978-1-907697-10-4 [hardback]
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