The book "How to Close a Museum: A Practical Guide" provides a comprehensive guide to closing a museum, covering legal, ethical, and operational aspects. It offers valuable forms, creative ideas, and sample documents to save time and includes personal experiences and lessons learned from museum leaders who have gone through similar experiences.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 28 June 2021
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

How to Close a Museum: A Practical Guide provides comprehensive guidance on closing a museum, addressing legal, ethical, and operational considerations. Whether you are facing difficult times or planning for the future, this book offers valuable insights and step-by-step instructions to dissolve the nonprofit corporation, work with the board, disperse assets, create a final staffing plan, manage media relations, preserve archival materials, engage with the community, and handle donor relations to preserve the legacy of the organization. Written by Dr. Susana Bautista, an experienced museum administrator, curator, and museologist, who personally went through the process of closing a museum as the last executive director of the Pasadena Museum of California Art in 2018, the book offers valuable forms, creative ideas, and sample documents to save time. It highlights the experiences and lessons learned by Dr. Bautista and other museum leaders who have gone through similar experiences, providing valuable guidance for all museum professionals.

How to Close a Museum: A Practical Guide

Are you considering closing your museum? Whether you are facing difficult times or planning for the future, How to Close a Museum: A Practical Guide provides comprehensive guidance on all the legal, ethical, and operational questions to start thinking about. Written by Dr. Susana Bautista, an experienced museum administrator, curator, and museologist, who personally went through the process of closing a museum as the last executive director of the Pasadena Museum of California Art in 2018, the book offers valuable insights and step-by-step instructions to dissolve the nonprofit corporation, work with the board, disperse assets, create a final staffing plan, manage media relations, preserve archival materials, engage with the community, and handle donor relations to preserve the legacy of the organization.