1. Jeanette Hopperton 701-04 Crowley Final Project

2. What’s going on? Museums Museum Code of Ethics LEM: the Learning Museum Kraft Great Kids Museum Program Macy’s Museum Adventure Pass Museum Free Days

3. Different types of Museums Aquariums Art museums Children's museum Historic sites History museums Maritime Military Natural history Planetariums Presidential libraries Public gardens Science centers zoos

4. American Association of Museums (AAM) To participate in AAM accreditation program, a museum must… o Be legally organized nonprofit institution or part of a nonprofit organization or government entity o Be essentially educational in nature o Have a formally stated and approved mission o Use and interpret objects and/or a site for the public presentation of regularly scheduled programs and exhibits o Have a formal and appropriate program of documentation, care and use of collection and/or objects o Carry out the above functions primarily at a physical facility/site

5. Continued…. o Have been open to the public for at least two years o Be open to the public at 1000 hours a year o Have accessioned 80% of its permanent collection o Have at least one paid professional staff with museum knowledge and experience o Have a full-time director to whom authority is delegated for day-to day operations o Have the financial resources sufficient to operate effectively o Demonstrate it meets the characteristics of an accredit able museum

6. Museum Code of Ethics First code was published in 1925. First revised in 1978 Next revised in 1987 Current code was adopted on November 12, 1993

7. LEM: The Learning Museum A network project funded by the Lifelong Learning Program, Grundtvig. Currently is with 23 partners from 17 European countries and the United States

8. LEM continuted LEM wants to support museums in achieving the objectives set by the EU Agenda 2020, by establishing a permanent space for museums and adult educators to learn from each other, develop professionally and contribute to a learning society and a knowledge based Europe. Their project’s aim is to face the challenges of the present and of the future decades, museums are not only expected to be places where people learn, but must be learning organizations themselves: learning from communities, from the public, from their stake holders, and also from other agencies, with whom they have to build alliances to accomplish the ambitious objectives set by polices at national and European level.

9. Kraft Great Kids Museum Program Kraft Great Kids Museum Program Adult residents of the City of Chicago One passport be person per household One week loan period Overdue fines

10. Presented by Macy’s, Lite fm 93.9, Chicago Sun- Times, DuPage Library system, North Suburban library System, and Metropolitan Library system. Adult Residents at participating suburban libraries Libraries have a limited number of passes per museum Loan Period

11. http://museumfreedays.com/