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American Alliance of Museums Ser.: Museum Finance : Issues, Challenges, and Successes by Brian Alexander (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAmerican Alliance of Museums
ISBN-101538138336
ISBN-139781538138335
eBay Product ID (ePID)11057258587
Product Key Features
Number of Pages168 Pages
Publication NameMuseum Finance : Issues, Challenges, and Successes
LanguageEnglish
SubjectNonprofit Organizations & Charities / Finance & Accounting, Museum Administration & Museology, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
Publication Year2023
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaTravel, Business & Economics
AuthorBrian Alexander
SeriesAmerican Alliance of Museums Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight8.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2022-045823
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsBrian Alexander's invaluable book is a must read for anyone responsible for constructing budgets, managing finances, or planning for a museum's future--in other words every member of a museum's professional staff. Offering both cautionary tales and entrepreneurial successes, it illuminates financial pitfalls to avoid, as well as offering positive ways that museums have overcome financial challenges to successfully blend money and mission and sustain healthy institutions., This book is a must-read not just for every museum director but for every employee. Through excellent case examples, Brian Alexander brilliantly captures the range of financial challenges facing both paid and volunteer leadership of our most treasured institutions and outlines the risks and returns of steps to tackle them. It is one of the most relatable books I have ever read when it comes to museum leadership. It should be required reading for boards and executive leaders.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal069.0681
Table Of ContentChapter 1: Understanding Museum Finance Chapter 2: Surveying Triumphs and Challenges Chapter 3: Blending Money and Mission Chapter 4: Diversifying with Care Chapter 5: Expanding When Ready Chapter 6: Taking Care of Business Chapter 7: Making Finance Everyone's Job Chapter 8: Moving Forward About the Author
SynopsisMuseum Finance: Issues, Challenges, and Successes looks at why museum finance is inherently challenging and how difficult it is to balance the need to generate adequate funding while providing accessible, meaningful mission-based services. The book's purpose is to help museum leaders at all levels recognize and avoid certain financial minefields and realize that while there are financial hurdles in the museum world, they are solvable. The book is filled with numerous examples illustrating the range of challenges faced by museums and how institutions met these challenges along with advice on how institutions can be successful in the face of financial difficulty., Author Brian Alexander examines news stories about museum financial triumphs and challenges to highlight varying levels of financial success or distress that are remarkably similar. The size, discipline or location of the museum did not seem to matter, nor did the amount of budgets. It was the nature of the problems that fell into predictable patterns. Each story reveals an important, instructional window into the financial realities faced by today's museums. The stories are familiar ones: the struggle to be financially sustainable, the search for new revenue streams, limited oversight and checks and balances, unfounded optimism over revenue projections and lack of engagement in financial matters. These were balanced with decisive museum leadership, trustee solidarity, institutional courage, creative entrepreneurship and effective planning. Museum Finance: Issues, Challenges, and Successes looks at why museum finance is inherently challenging and how difficult it is to balance the need to generate adequate funding while providing accessible, meaningful mission-based services. The book's purpose is to help museum leaders at all levels recognize and avoid certain financial minefields and realize that while there are financial hurdles in the museum world, they are solvable. The book is filled with numerous examples illustrating the range of challenges faced by museums and how institution have met these challenges along with advice on how institutions can be successful in the face of financial difficulty., Here is a comprehensive guide to financial management and stability for museums that provides context for the financial issues faced by museums and offer suggestions to mitigate them. It will help the reader understand why finances are chronic issues, provide perspective to see challenges more clearly, and offer advice to fix them.
LC Classification NumberAM122.A63 2023
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