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Author McLean, Fiona, 1961-

Title Marketing the museum / Fiona McLean
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1997

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Description 257 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Series Heritage: care-preservation-management
Heritage.
Contents Pt. 1. Issues and challenges. 1. The museum context. 2. The marketing context. 3. The museum's environment. 4. Museums and the public -- Pt. II. The practice. 5. The museum's markets. 6. The museum product. 7. Communicating the museum product. 8. Resource attraction. 9. Implementing the marketing effort. Fictional case-study: Marketing Plan for Currie Natural History Museum. 10. Future developments for marketing the museum
Summary In this volume, the marketing of a museum is not seen in terms of 'product', but rather as the process by which one can build a relationship between the museum and the public. This study is the ideal guide to the ways in which museums can overcome the numerous hurdles on the route to truly achieving a marketing orientation. It gives practical guidelines to the specific ways in which marketing can be tailored to the needs of museums and become a useful as well as an acceptable part of today's museums in achieving their ultimate purpose in serving the community
The history of the museum is one of shifting purposes and changing ideals. Taking a necessarily close look at the specific needs of this sector, this volume asks if it is possible to define the 'product' which the modern museum can offer. Are the theories of marketing developed for manufactured goods in any way relevant to the experience of visiting a museum? Or, as anti-marketing lobbies believe, should marketing play only the smallest of roles, if any at all?
Analysis Museums - Administration
Museums - Marketing
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-245) and index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-245) and index
Subject Military nursing -- Australia -- Queensland -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Museums -- Administration.
Museums -- Management.
Museums -- Marketing.
Nurses -- Australia -- Queensland -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Hospitals -- Australia -- Queensland -- Congresses.
Author Australia Remembers 1945-1995
Queensland Nursing History Conference Group
LC no. 96022435
ISBN 0415103924 (alk. paper)
0415152933 (paperback: alk. paper)
Other Titles Queensland nurses at war and on the home front 1939-1945: Queensland nursing history one day conference