Project Management for Museums
Transforming Workplaces through Future-Ready Practices
Project Management for Museums
Transforming Workplaces through Future-Ready Practices
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Description
Museums run on projects-from exhibitions and publications to digital initiatives, collections work, or organizational change-yet museum professionals are often expected to lead cross-departmental work without a shared language or practical approach for managing it. Project Management for Museums makes project management accessible to those responsible for turning an idea or priority into a meaningful outcome. The book presents project management not simply as a set of tools or a technical discipline, but as an essential mindset that integrates mission-driven purpose, operational efficiency, and cultural sensitivity to help museums remain resilient and relevant in an ever-evolving world.
Readers will learn the foundations of project management and how to use six adaptable project phases to organize work intentionally: clarifying why a project matters, defining what it should accomplish, coordinating people and decisions, navigating constraints, and sustaining the value it creates. Through museum examples, frameworks, and practical tools, the book invites professionals to approach projects as shared efforts that translate a museum's purpose into meaningful action.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I – Foundations for Museum Project Management
Chapter 1: Projects and their value
Chapter 2: Foundations of Project Management
PART II – The Museum Project Life Cycle
Chapter 3: Introduction to the project life cycle
Chapter 4: Phase 1. Discovery
Chapter 5: Phase 2. Define
Chapter 6: Phase 3. Plan
Chapter 7: Phase 4. Execute
Chapter 8: Phase 5. Track and Iterate
Chapter 9: Phase 6. Close
PART III – The Museum Project Value Delivery System
Chapter 10: Why museum projects strain
Chapter 11: The museum value delivery system
Chapter 12: Practitioner's insights
Chapter 13: Conclusion
Toolkit
Glossary
Appendices
Bibliography
Further Reading
Index
About the Author
Product details
| Published | 01 Apr 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9798765153680 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | American Alliance of Museums |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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