Museum Provocateur

List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
Part One: Creating a Distinctive Mission and Vision
1. "Vision, Leadership, and Meaningful Change" by Gail Anderson
2. "Agenda for Museums in the 21st Century" (Daedalus, Summer 1999)
3. "Museum Mission Statements and the Accreditation Process" (from Anderson, Museum Mission Statements, AAM, 1998)
"What Makes a Museum?" (2007, unpublished keynote)
"Dreaming the Museum" (Museum News, March-April 2005)
Part Two: Connecting to the Community
1. "Museums and Their Publics" by Marsha L. Semmel
2. "Changing Expectations for Museums" (Smithsonian Institution Symposium paper, 1997)
3. "The Educational Role of Museums" (unpublished keynote, 1985)
"The Arts in Society" (unpublished unknown talk, 1994)
"Excellent Inequities" (Museum News, January-February 1993)
Part Three: Designing Compelling Experiences
1. "Compelling Experience Design in the Museum" by Christopher Wilson
2. "The Mission of the Industrial Museum in the Postindustrial Age" (Public Historian, Summer 2000)
3. "Foreword," Private History in Public: Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life (from Gordon, AASLH/AltaMira Press, 2010)
"The Exhibiting Dilemma" (Technology & Culture, July 2007)
5. "Interpreting Material Culture: A View from the Other Side of the Glass" (from Quimby, Material Culture in American Life, 1978)
Part Four: Providing Effective and Inspirational Leadership
1. "What Becomes a Legend Most: Harold Skramstad and Museum Leadership" by Kinshasha Holman Conwill
2. "The Director's Mask" (from Tolles, Leadership for the Future, AASLH/AltaMira Press, 1991)
3. "Daniel J. Boorstin 1914-2004" (Technology and Culture, October 2004)
4. "Inspiring Change" (Museum News, Jan-Feb 1995)
5. "Working Model: A Mechanism for the Effective Board" (Museum News, January- February 2003)
"Turning Words into Change: A Brief Look at Harold K. Skramstad, Jr.'s Career" by Nancy E. V. Bryk
Afterword: "Acknowledging a Champion of Change" by Lonnie G. Bunch III
About the Editors
About the Contributors