Websites
- Association of Art Museum DirectorsThe association publishes salary surveys, standards and guidelines, data on art museums, reports, job openings, an object registry, and more.
- Conserve-O-GramsNational Park Service Museum Management Program online leaflets on conservation topics.
- New York Art ResourcesA portal to resources from three New York City art museum research libraries: The Brooklyn Museum, the Frick Collection, and the Museum of Modern Art. Search their combined library collection catalog, Arcade, and digital collections such as the Frick Digital Image Archive.
- Smithsonian Museum Studies"The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies (SCEMS) assists the museum community in acquiring and strengthening its understandings and practices of museology. This website is one of the Center's tools for serving the educational and informational needs of the field."
- Visitor Studies AssociationProfessional organization concerned with the visitor experience in museums and other informal learning settings. The organization publishes the journal, Visitor Studies.
Selected Books
AAM guide to provenance researchCall Number: Online: temporary access through HathiTrust
Artifacts and AllegiancesCall Number: Online
Companion to Museum StudiesCall Number: online
Corporate Art CollectionsCall Number: online
A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition by ISBN: 9781588343222Publication Date: 2012-05-08
Museum BasicsCall Number: Online
Museum educator's handbookCall Number: Online
MRM6: Museum Registration Methods by Call Number: AM139 .M78 2020ISBN: 9781538113110Publication Date: 2020-06-08
Selected Journals
Museum Studies Research
- Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) 2021 Salary SurveyThe AAMD Salary Survey is an annual survey of art museum salaries. The 2021 survey has responses from over 200 museums.
- A Call for Gender Equity in the Museum WorkplaceA brief paper highlighting gender equity issues in museum hiring and promotion practices, and outlining action steps for addressing them.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Data CatalogUse the IMLS Data Catalog to explore data on libraries, museums, and related organizations, including funding reports and survey results.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Social Wellbeing Impact StudyThis report examines the role of museums and libraries in promoting social wellbeing in communities across the United States.
- Mellon Foundation Art Museum Staff Demographic SurveyThis survey examines art museum staff diversity through a comprehensive collection of the field’s ethnic, racial, and gender demographics.
- NEH Survey of Public Participation in the ArtsThis report provides detailed statistics on adults’ patterns of arts participation, based on the 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. It compares rates of arts attendance, art-making, arts consumption via media, and literary reading among various demographic subgroups.
- Wallace Studies in Building Arts AudiencesA series of case studies describing strategies for arts organizations seeking to build their audiences. Each case study is in pdf form.
