ABSTRACT
With this book, museum professionals can learn how to unleash creative potential throughout their institution. Drawing from a wide range of research on creativity as well as insights from today’s most creative museum leaders, the authors present a set of practical principles about how museum workers at any level—not just those in “creative positions”—can make a place for creativity in their daily practice. Replete with creativity exercises and stories from the field, the book guides readers in developing an internal culture of creative learning, as well as delivering increased value to museum audiences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|50 pages
Your Creative Practice
Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
chapter 2|40 pages
Building Creative Cultures
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
chapter 3|32 pages
Tools for Creative Cultures
What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
chapter 4|38 pages
A Field-wide Creative Infrastructure
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
chapter 5|28 pages
Creative Museums, Creative Communities
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential you can start changing the world.
