Mission and Institutional Planning Resources

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Change Management

The Alliance has compiled this set of change management resources from amongst its own offerings as well as those throughout the nonprofit and museum sector.

Alliance Resources

The Migratory Museum

This Museum magazine article explores the choices several museums made to move locations as a means for financial stability, growing new audiences, and allowing the museum to evolve while still fulfilling mission.

The Upside of Cutting Down

This Museum magazine article looks at how the museum can be creative and efficient with their programming when faced with staff reduction, tightened budgets, and the possibility of closures or cancellations. The article focuses on prioritization, providing museums with considerations for cutting non-essential programs and operations.

Other Resources

A Museum Move Lesson: A Moving Experience is Also Physical

This Alaska State Museums Bulletin 74 offers a perspective from Lisa Golisek on Alaska State Museum’s “big move.”

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