Hall of Fame Museums: A Reference Guide (Organization Sciences)

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The first comprehensive overview of hall of fame museums and exhibits, this work traces the history, examines and compares the facilities, exhibits, and operations, and describes 274 halls of fame in over 100 fields in the United States and 10 other countries. The information is based on recently compiled surveys. More than half of the museums and exhibits are in the area of sports, but others range from aviation and space to cockroaches. Of interest to high school, college, university, and public libraries for their popular culture/travel reference shelves. A great source for vacations, each entry provides the address, telephone number, hours, and admission fees as well as content, operations, and more. The hall of fame movement began in Europe several centuries ago with memorials to national heroes and other illustrious persons. But it was not until the 20th century that the contemporary hall of fame movement honoring outstanding achievers in particular fields received its impetus and attained its greatest success in the United States. Other countries covered in the book include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, and Singapore. Not all halls of fame are in museums. Other places include civic centers, sports arenas, government buildings, universities, and racetracks.

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Science Center Planning Guide: A Handbook for Starting and Operating Science and Technology Museums

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Hands-On Science Centers: A Directory of Interactive Museums and Sites in the United States

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Hands-on science centers are one of America's newest and most popular types of museums. Beginning with a history of the science center movement in the United States, this book then presents detailed entries on more than 260 museums and sites where the visiting public can touch, handle, and interact with exhibits or objects in entertaining and educational ways. Each entry includes a description of the center's hands-on exhibits, programs, and events, along with contact information, hours, and ticket information. The book contains 75 photographs of the exhibits in action.

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Museum Careers and Training: A Professional Guide

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Danilov presents a comprehensive guide to museum careers and training programs in the United States and 38 other countries around the world. More than 700 courses, undergraduate and graduate programs, internships and fellowships, and mid-career training programs are described. He discusses the nature and requirements of many different types of museum positions, including director, curator, educator, exhibit designer, registrar, conservator, and careers in business affairs, fundraising, public relations, marketing, membership, physical plant, security, and other aspects of museum operations. The primary purposes of the volume are to stimulate thinking about museum careers and training, to describe the various museum positions and training programs available, and to provide guidance to those considering or pursuing formal or informal training opportunities.

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A Planning Guide for Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers

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This unique planning guide describes the different types of corporate museum-like facilities located in the United States and around the world. It provides essential information for anyone planning, starting up, or operating a museum, gallery, or visitor center. This how-to reference on the planning and administration of corporate museums or centers is written by Victor Danilov as a companion volume to his Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers: A Directory, published by Greenwood Press in August 1991. This practical guide analyzes the various types of corporate museum-like facilities and describes their development; points to key factors to consider in planning and establishing museums, galleries, and visitor centers; and discusses their operation and reasons for their success or failure. This unusual reference is nicely illustrated and offers both a bibliography and an index.

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University and College Museums, Galleries, and Related Facilities: A Descriptive Directory by Danilov, Victor J. (1996) Hardcover

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Sports Museums and Halls of Fame Worldwide

(Sports museums and halls of fame are both keepers of spor...)

Sports museums and halls of fame are both keepers of sports legacies and shrines to sports heroes in the United States and throughout the world. They are among the most numerous and popular of the specialized museums and museum-like institutions in America and are receiving increasing attention in other countries as well. Vistiors are drawn to these institutions by the love and thrill of sports, the fascination with sports heroes and the allure of historical sports objects and enticing modern exhibits. Through these establishments, millions of sports fans are entertained, informed and given the opportunity to relive exciting sports moments from the past. From chess, field hockey and golf to jousting, soccer and weightlifting, this work offers a comprehensive overview of sports museums and halls of fame worldwide. Over 580 of these facilities in 46 countries are listed, covering some 82 categories of sporting activities. Institutions are organized by sport. In addition to the informative descriptions provided for each, contact information for the various sites is included. An appendix lists institutions by country.

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Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers: A Directory

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One of the most frequently overlooked areas of the museum world are those museums and museum-like facilities that are part of manufacturing and other types of companies. Usually known as corporate museums, galleries, or visitor centers, they have other names, such as exhibit halls, history rooms, sculpture gardens, information centers, and even halls of fame. In general, they are exhibit-based facilities owned and operated by publicly traded or privately held companies as public relations, marketing, and/or personnel relations vehicles. In some cases, however, they are operated through foundations started and largely funded and controlled by companies. This unique and comprehensive guide describes more than 300 such corporate museums, galleries, and visitor centers from throughout the world. These facilities are often not listed in conventional museum directories. As part of a corporate organization, they generally do not receive the visibility, publicity, and recognition accorded most nonprofit museums. This volume provides the first comprehensive directory of corporate museums, galleries, and visitors' centers. Those interested in these unusual museums, as well as the companies that house them, will want to own a copy of this unique reference work.

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Women and Museums: A Comprehensive Guide (American Association for State and Local History)

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Women and Museums is the first comprehensive directory of museums for, by, and about women. With useful cross-reference guides and an accessible format this unique resource provides essential information about these institutions, including interpretive themes, the historical significance of their collections, their cultural and social relevance to women, along with programming events and facility information. This volume is an important multi-functional reference for museum professionals and students, local historians, historic preservationists or anyone interested in quick and easy ways of finding information on America's women-related museums.

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University and College Museums, Galleries, and Related Facilities: A Descriptive Directory

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The first guide of its kind in over a half century, this work contains 1,108 descriptions in 24 categories. It presents a comprehensive picture of museums, galleries, and related facilities in American universities and colleges. The first 10 chapters offer an overview of the field, dealing with such aspects as history, mission, types, governance, and much more. It is an essential in-house reference tool for all campus museums and galleries and should be found in university, college, and public libraries as well. Students and their visitors may be surprised at the wealth and variety of culture readily available on their own campuses, and this guide makes the investigatory task easy. The directory describes museums and similar facilities in 24 categories, with nearly half the institutions being art museums and art galleries. The others range from agricultural museums to botanical gardens. Beyond being fascinating in its scope, the book provides a wide variety of information about the operations of the facilities—practical details that are not available anywhere else. This is the book where professionals can learn about each other and visitors can research just what is available on any campus.

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Museums and Historic Sites of the American West:

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This reference provides the first comprehensive guidebook to the remnants of a key period in American history. Danilov examines both the real and mythical history of the trans-Mississippi region from the mid-1800s through the early 1900s through the lens of more than 1,500 historic sites and museums in 38 states and the District of Columbia. Locations including missions, trails, landmarks, forts, ghost towns, and Native American villages are featured here, along with details of what is on view. The early American West has taken on mythic proportions, coming to be regarded as a time and place unlike any other. In Historic Sites and Museums of the Old West, Victor J. Danilov examines both the real and mythical history of the trans-Mississippi region from the mid-1800s through the early 1900s through the lens of more than 1500 historic sites and museums in 38 states and the District of Columbia. Locations including missions, trading posts, trails, landmarks, military forts, battlefields, railroads, ghost towns, and early Native American villages are featured here, along with details of what exhibits and artifacts are on view. Helpfully organized both by classification and by location, this reference volume provides the first comprehensive guidebook to the remnants of a key period in American history. As such, it will prove useful for libraries, historians, history buffs, and travelers alike.

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Ethnic Museums and Heritage Sites in the United States

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Though the United States is often said to be a "melting pot" society for its assimilation of multiple cultures, Americans have also demonstrated a strong interest in retaining elements of their historical, cultural and artistic heritage. Since the 19th century, and especially following World War II, this has resulted in the establishment of numerous ethnic museums, art galleries, and historic sites. This comprehensive directory, the first of its kind, provides information about more than 1,100 museums and sites devoted to 55 ethnic groups. Organized alphabetically by ethnic group, entries include a description of each site and of its collections and facilities, along with complete contact information, website, hours and ticket information.

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Hands-On Science Centers: A Directory of Interactive Museums and Sites in the United States by Victor J. Danilov (2010-04-29) Paperback

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A Planning Guide for Corporate Museums, Galleries, and Visitor Centers by Danilov, Victor J. (1991) Hardcover

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Sports Museums and Halls of Fame Worldwide by Danilov, Victor J. (2005) Paperback

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