Museum Finance: Issues, Challenges, and Successes - Hardcover

by Brian Alexander (Author)

Museum Finance: Issues, Challenges, and Successes looks at why museum finance is inherently challenging and how difficult it is to balance the need to generate adequate funding while providing accessible, meaningful mission-based services. The book's purpose is to help museum leaders at all levels recognize and avoid certain financial minefields and realize that while there are financial hurdles in the museum world, they are solvable. The book is filled with numerous examples illustrating the range of challenges faced by museums and how institutions met these challenges along with advice on how institutions can be successful in the face of financial difficulty.

Author Biography

Brian Alexander has worked in museums for over forty years. Among other positions he has been the president & CEO of the National World War I Museum, president & CEO of the Historic Annapolis Foundation, executive vice-president & director of the Shelburne Museum and director of the museum program for the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Currently he is visiting professor of museum administration at the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York.