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Sustainable Museums: Strategies for the 21st Century

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How can museums remain resilient in uncertain times? How can they thrive under changing economic, legislative and cultural conditions? Museum sustainability expert Rachel Madan covers new territory for any museum that is interested in becoming more sustainable. This is not a book about changing light bulbs - Sustainable Museums provides a system enabling you to start making changes that are both transformational and lasting. It will help you create a museum that is resilient, confident and secure in its sustainability approach. And as well as lots of advice, it provides a host of inspiring international case studies along the way.

Among the key topics covered in the book’s information-rich 380 pages are:
  1. Developing a sustainability vision for your own museum
  2. The importance of leadership – and achieving it at every level
  3. Finding and bringing your sustainability team together
  4. Undertaking your sustainability audit and discovering where you are
  5. Determining where you want to get to
  6. Developing a sustainability strategy for your museum
  7. Setting and achieving critical targets and milestones
  8. Developing the policies and plans which will support your strategy
  9. Letting the world know – communicating your sustainability
  10. Overcoming the inevitable implementation problems
  11. 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 

Case Studies 01. Heritage Lottery Fund 02. Ruskin Museum 03. Balboa Park Cultural Partnership 04. National Museums Liverpool 05. Massachusetts Audubon Society 06. Connecticut Science Center 07. The Beacon Museum 08. Lakeland Arts Trust 09. John G Shedd Aquarium 10. Manchester United Museum and Tour Centre 11. Smithsonian National Zoo 12. The Harris Museum, Preston 13. Minnesota Historical Society 14. Manchester Museum 15. Manchester Art Gallery 16. Ball State University Museum of Art 17. Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester 18. Heide Museum of Modern Art 19. Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse 20. Detroit Zoo 21. Musée de la Civilisation 22. RETHINK 23. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 24. Oregon Museum of Science and Industry 25. Abbot Hall Art Gallery 26. Manchester Art Gallery 27. British Library 28. Warrington Museum 29. The Design Museum 30. Walker Art Center 31. Renaissance South East 32. North Carolina Museum of Art 33. Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center 34. Chabot Space & Science Center 35. National Museums Liverpool 36. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

37. Abasuba Community Peace Museum

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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