Mastering a Museum Plan: Strategies for Exhibit Development

by Dirk Houtgraaf, Vanda Vitali

Mastering a Museum Plan offers a methodology for the creation of museum installations, whether they are small exhibits or museum-wide presentations. Houtgraaf and Vitali draw on their own museum planning experience at Naturalis to highlight six key areas on which installation planning should intellectual and narrative content, spatial organization, the roles of team members, the role of the steering committee, a detailed timeline, and a budget. Mastering a Museum Plan provides an optimal structure for successful planning, one that allows a museum to articulate its message, organize its development activity, avoid the need for crisis management, and prevent the loss of human and material resources.

90 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Mitukagome · Rating 4 out of 5]

The writing style in this book was very dry and verging on boring (made worse by the awful choice of fonts and text layout). However, it did contain a lot of helpful information about developing a museum exhibit, describing each step along the way from initial idea to exhibit opening. There were also a number of very helpful charts and diagrams to help illustrate the ideas given.