Jeanette Hopperton
701-04
Crowley
Final Project
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Museums
Museum Code of Ethics
LEM: the Learning Museum
Kraft Great Kids Museum Program
Macy’s Museum Adventure Pass
Museum Free Days
What’s going on?
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Aquariums
Art museums
Children's museum
Historic sites
History museums
Maritime
Military
Natural history
Planetariums
Presidential libraries
Public gardens
Science centers
zoos
Different types of Museums
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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
American Association of Museums
(AAM)
oHave been open to the public for at least two
years
oBe open to the public at 1000 hours a year
oHave accessioned 80% of its permanent collection
oHave at least one paid professional staff with
museum knowledge and experience
oHave a full-time director to whom authority is
delegated for day-to day operations
oHave the financial resources sufficient to operate
effectively
oDemonstrate it meets the characteristics of an
accredit able museum
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First code was published in 1925.
 First revised in 1978
 Next revised in 1987
 Current code was adopted on November
12, 1993
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Museum Code of Ethics
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A network project funded by the Lifelong
Learning Program, Grundtvig.
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Currently is with 23 partners from 17
European countries and the United States
LEM: The Learning Museum
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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.
LEM continuted
•Adult residents of the City of
Chicago
•One passport be person per
household
•One week loan period
•Overdue fines
Kraft Great Kids
Museum Program
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Presented by Macy’s, Lite fm 93.9, Chicago SunTimes, 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
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http://museumfreedays.com/