Description

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With this book museum professionals can learn how to unleash creative potential throughout their institution. Drawing from a wide range of research on creativity as well as insights from today’s most creative museum leaders, the authors present at a set of practical principles about how museum workers at any level—not just those in “creative positions”—can make a place for creativity in their daily practice. Replete with creativity exercises and stories from the field, they guide readers in developing an internal culture of creative learning, as well as delivering increased value to museum audiences.

About the Author

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Linda Norris is an independent museum professional who focuses on shaping compelling narratives, improving professional practice and listening to communities. She has worked on interpretive projects and developed workshops for museums and cultural organizations in the United States, Canada, and Europe including the American Association for State and Local History, Connecticut Humanities, the Berkshire Museum and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 2009 and 2010 to Ukraine. Linda blogs at the Uncataloged Museum and is a co-founder of the The Pickle Project.

Rainey Tisdale is an independent curator, based in Boston, who specializes in urban and local history. She spent most of the last decade working for the Bostonian Society, Boston's city historical society. In 2010 she was a Fulbright Scholar in Helsinki, Finland, and in 2011 she was a fellow at Brown University’s John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities. She teaches Material Culture in the Museum Studies Graduate Program at Tufts University and blogs at CityStories.

Praise For…

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“Extremely practical and useable as a toolkit. Creativity is sparked by new information, and these practical new ideas definitely sparked my imagination. I especially looked forward to the Your Creative Practice sections sprinkled throughout the book. I loved getting a behind-the-scenes look at how others in the business form their ideas. It's exactly the type of book I buy when I want to be reinvigorated. You'll want to underline passages, dog-ear the pages, and mark up the margins.”

—Andrea Childress, Atlanta History Center

“I have begun a list of friends and colleagues to whom I wish to gift copies—some to encourage their existing creative practices and others to get them started. This book should be a valuable contribution to the field and a must-read for any museum studies students.”

—Marianne Bez, Museum Consultant