The Sixth Floor Museum

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza chronicles the assassination and legacy of President John F. Kennedy; interprets and supports the Dealey Plaza National Historical Landmark District and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza; and presents contemporary culture within the context of presidential history. Explore history through one of the world's most significant repositories of original photographs, film and video footage, documents and artifacts related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy-a continually growing, multifaceted collection of approximately 35,000 items. 

 

 

 

The longest continuously operating art museum in the West, the Crocker Art Museum was founded in 1885 and remains the leading art institution for the California Capital Region and Central Valley. The Museum, which is housed in one of the finest examples of Victorian Italianate architecture in the United States, offers a diverse spectrum of special exhibitions, events and programs to augment its collections of California, European and Asian artworks, and International Ceramics.
The mission of the Museum is to promote an awareness of and enthusiasm for human experience through art. The Museum fulfills its mission by offering a variety of education programs for Youth & Family, Schools & Teachers and the Public  

The recent precipitous upheaval in the financial markets is the latest and perhaps most serious challenge to museums in recent years. 

Institutions are facing uncertainty over the future of their corporate, private, and municipal support.  Moreover, many museums are experiencing the threat of higher interest costs from turbulence in the bond markets.  Now more than ever, museum directors and trustees have an even greater responsibility in helping to prioritize and allocate their institutions' current and anticipated resources not only for short-term operating needs, but also for improving operating efficiencies, expanding physical plant requirements, updating conservation standards, making future acquisitions, and generating temporary and traveling exhibits.

Current Economic Environment - Museum directors and trustees regularly evaluate their institutions on a strategic level as a means to rationalize their curatorial and programmatic responsibilities to the public with the limitations of their current and anticipated resources. In the current economic climate, however, there is a growing imperative for museum leaders to expand those strategic discussions into deeper, more tactical re-examinations of their collections and physical assets as well as their long-standing, vertically integrated museum management model, emanating from the 19th century, in which directors are expected to have intimate knowledge of and ultimate authority over every museum function, and every discipline is staffed with multiple full-time professionals.

· Which positions/functions are specific to the institution?  Which ones are more generic?
· Which positions require full-time, year-long compensation?  Can job functions be spread across fewer workers?
· What are the efficiencies/economies of scale that could result from outsourcing?
· What is the best and highest use of the institution's real estate portfolio?  Could storage or workroom expenses be managed more effectively?

 

 

Since 1842, America's oldest public art museum.
Hartford art patron Daniel Wadsworth (1771-1848) founded the Wadsworth Atheneum to share the wonders of art with the public. In the mid-nineteenth century, average citizens had little if no exposure to fine art, antiquities, or beautiful objects. Only the very wealthy purchased paintings or decorative arts, and then only for their own enjoyment. Thus, Wadsworth's generous gesture was an exciting turn of events that raised the cultural fortunes of an entire community. 

 

With amazing exhibits, splendid events and creative educational programs, The History Center awaits your arrival.
Located at the heart of downtown Orlando, the Orange County Regional History Center offers five floors of Central Floridas past, presented in dynamic fashion.