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  • Museum Survivor

    Motto: Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. (W. Edwards Deming)
  • Founder: Elizabeth Merritt

    Urban planning, museums, relocation, historic house, Center for the Future of Museums, American Association of Museums,

  • Who We Need
    Museum practitioners (museum professionals, independent professionals, museum studies students), demographers, economists, city planners, people who care passionately about museums in their communities
  • How to join
  • Mission

    Museums have exceeded the carrying capacity of society in 2019. After a decade of concerted effort to tackle the unmanageable number of historic houses in the country, only 1 in 10 remains a nonprofit museum. The rest have been converted to private residences or commercial properties (hotels, B&Bs, boutique shops). Some areas of the country face permanent evacuation due to repeated climate disasters (e.g., New Orleans, Galveston, Florida Keys), and the museums in those areas face closure or relocation.

     

    Mission

    • How can museums in areas being abandoned document their dying communities while deciding whether and where to relocate?
    • What is the best way to decide which museums close or merge? Is it survival of the fittest, or should government, museums’ communities, or funding organizations create a process to integrate decision making?
    • If your museum is in a vulnerable area, threatened by climate change, evacuation, or extreme economic distress, what are your plans? Would you close, merge or relocate, and if so, where?
    • If a former population center is abandoned, does a museum have a responsibility to continue to care for historic structures in that area, especially if the museum itself is leaving? 

     This superstruct is brought to you by the Center for the Future of Museums, an initiative of the American Association of Museums.

  • What we can accomplish

    • Create guidelines to promote wise decision making regarding closures, repurposing and acquisitions. Access to cultural history shouldn't be determined by stoichastic, local, short term forces.

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