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The MA also produces Museum Practice online. [8] The latest case studies and best practice by museum professionals around the UK, with an interactive platform for users to share their ideas. Through its work with the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation , the MA has created the Esmee Fairbairn Collections Fund, [ 9 ] building on its 2005 report ...
A participating museum may receive benefits that can outweigh a potential reduction in direct admissions fees. Access to reciprocal membership privileges is usually reserved for membership levels higher than a basic membership, and participating museums have found that membership revenues may increase after announcement of a reciprocal program.
The initial AAM headquarters in Washington, D.C.; it is now headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), formerly the American Association of Museums, [2] is a non-profit association whose goal is to bring museums together.
The Smithsonian Affiliations program was established in 1996 by Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael Heyman [3] [4] with the approval of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, in response to several challenges the Institution faced at the time: a decrease in federal funding, limited storage space for expanding collections, and the need to make the Institution more reflective of the nation without ...
CIDOC, ICOM's International Committee for Documentation, provides the museum community with standards and advice on museum documentation. [22] The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM), formalised as the official international standard ISO 21127, is used to map cultural heritage information to a common and extensible semantic framework. This ...
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Private donations, endowments, and funds are used for the support of specific programs and all acquisition of artwork, as well as additional general support. [3]
The AFA was founded on May 12, 1909. At a meeting on May 11, 1909, convened by the National Academy of Arts [3] Board of Regents—among whom were President William Howard Taft, former president Theodore Roosevelt, Cecilia Beaux, Robert Woods Bliss, William Merritt Chase, Robert W. DeForest, Homer Saint-Gaudens, Charles L. Hutchinson, Archer M. Huntington, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Leila ...
2.7 acres (1.1 ha) around and under the museum building; 1.3-acre sculpture garden across Jefferson Drive sunken 6–14 feet (1.8–4.3 m) below street level, ramped for accessibility; Second- and third-floor galleries have 15-foot-high walls, with exposed 3-foot-deep coffered ceilings; Lower level includes exhibition space, storage, workshops ...