MUSEOLOGY LITRETURE

Museum Staff – Role and Responsibilities 1. Introduction Museum is the manifold activities organisation. It needs many people to run its day to day operations. A notable and good museum largely relies upon its staff members. According to the size, collections and responsibilities of the museum towards its community, it is expected to have adequate number of staff. The Governing Body of a museum is specially committed to appoint the Director and other human resource for the museum. Because of the performance of all the staff a museum run effectively as a public service organization. Each museum has staff positions and job descriptions are appropriated to the needs and financial resources of that institution. There is no one pattern that applies to all museum; in fact it is doubtful that any two museums, unless they are under the same administrative system or quite small, will have the same staff pattern. Larger and better-funded museums need to have more offici...

 Museum Management 1. Introduction Museums are traditionally not ‘managed’ but ‘administered’. There is no specific manager in museums, even in India but the entire museum management is performed by different staffs under the directives of museum policies by and under the respective administrative personnel like directors, curators, keepers, conservators, and education officers etc. who have been groomed in traditional style of museum administration. The entire administrative system of a museum is performed either directly under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India by the Director Generals in case of national museums or by definite governing body or Board of Trustees in case of other museums including the museums of national importance. Museum management is defined today as the action of ensuring the running of the museum’s administrative, business and more generally, all the activities which are not directly attached to the specific fields of mu...