Fall 2012: Navigating a changing economy: The new normal for museums? – American Alliance of Museums

From the President, Douglas Simpson
From the Editor, Gretchen Jennings
Exhibits Newsline, by Beth Redmond-Jones
Sitting in Judgment: Notes from the 24th Annual Excellence in Exhibitions Session at AAM, by Willard Whitson
Flux or the New Normal? Museum Exhibitions in the Post-Recession Reality, by Daniel Spock
Show Me the Money: Funding Exhibition Development in Changing Times, by Marilyn Hoyt
Baking the Cake Differently—An Australian Perspective on Museum Funding and Business Models, by Regan Forrest and Sue Hodges
Measuring the Rule of Thumb: How Much Do Exhibitions Cost? by Sarah Bartlett and Christopher Lee
Hackerspaces, Fab Labs, and the Democratization of Exhibits, by Tisha Carper Long
The Event-Driven Museum? Reconsidering the Role of Exhibitions in Tough Economic Times, by Nina Simon
Making Invisible: Slavery Today Visible, by Dina Bailey, Jamie Glavic and Leslie Mooney
Creative Adaptation: Exhibitions in the Downturn, by Regina Faden, Ph.D
Exhibitionist Survey—a Study for the National Association for Museum Exhibition
Nuts and Bolts: Embezzlement: Is it Our Dirty Little Secret? by Max A. van Balgooy
Exhibition Studies: A Model Museum Internship Program in New Mexico, by Miriam Roberts
Exhibition Critiques: The Pritzker Family Children’s Zoo by Rachel Hellenga with Cricket Brooks; Katherine Johnson; Chad Tyler
Book Review: Nonprofit Finance for Hard Times, by Susan U. Raymond, Ph.D., reviewed by John W. Jacobsen
Twenty-Fifth Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition

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