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Museum Management When The Crisis Term Paper

They agreed that a bodyguard and 24-hour watch over the house was in order. After a few days the police apprehend two teenagers who are "wanna-be" artists, skulking around the house with cans of gasoline and matches and find that they had also been making crank calls, capitalizing on the publicity that the exhibition brought (Lord, 2000). As a result of these crisis-breaking maneuvers, the Director is able to keep his job and the museum becomes famous as an example of an avant-garde institution (Edson, 1996).

List of References

Ackley, Joseph, November 7, 2007, Support Gu-erilla Art, the Dartmough.com Opinion. http://thedartmouth.com/2007/11/07/opinion/ackley/.

Alexander, Edward P. 1979, Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Cato, Paisley S., Golden, Julia and McLaren, Suzanne B.. 2003, Museum Wise: Workplace Words Defined....

Washington, DC: Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections.
Edson, Gary and Dean, David (eds.), 1996, the Handbook for Museums. London: Routledge.

Goode, George Browne, 1895, the Principles of Museum Administration. New York: Coultas and Volans.

Horn, Adrienne, 2007, Executive Coaching, Museum Management Consultants, Inc. website: http://www.heritageinterp.com/why.htm.

Kavanaugh, Gaynor. History Curatorship. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1990.

Kavanaugh, Gaynor. Museum Provision and Professionalism. London: Routledge, 2002.

Lord, Gail Dexter and Barry Lord. The Manual of Museum Management. London: The Stationery Office, 2000.

Scherr, Barry, 2007, Outside Museum Walls, the Dartmouth.com Opinion. http://thedartmouth.com/2007/11/07/opinion/scherr/.

Veverka, John, 2007, Interpretive Planning & Interpretive Training, World Wide.

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References

Ackley, Joseph, November 7, 2007, Support Gu-erilla Art, the Dartmough.com Opinion. http://thedartmouth.com/2007/11/07/opinion/ackley/.

Alexander, Edward P. 1979, Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Cato, Paisley S., Golden, Julia and McLaren, Suzanne B.. 2003, Museum Wise: Workplace Words Defined. Washington, DC: Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections.

Edson, Gary and Dean, David (eds.), 1996, the Handbook for Museums. London: Routledge.
Horn, Adrienne, 2007, Executive Coaching, Museum Management Consultants, Inc. website: http://www.heritageinterp.com/why.htm.
Scherr, Barry, 2007, Outside Museum Walls, the Dartmouth.com Opinion. http://thedartmouth.com/2007/11/07/opinion/scherr/.
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