Money, Market, or Mission? Museums in a Changing World

On Tuesday March 18th, we are looking forward to welcome Judith Dobrzynski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_H._Dobrzynski), award-winning journalist, in conversation with Sally Yerkovich, Director of the University’s Institute of Museum Ethics, on the topic of “Money, Market, or Mission? Museums in a Changing World.”  

This is the second of a series events organized to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the MAMP program. For those of you who were able to come to the Nina Simon lecture in January, this conversation is somewhat contrapuntally related to it, which is a complicated way of saying that it may present a somewhat different viewpoint. Ongoing economic challenges have caused museums to question accepted ways of doing business and to look for new models that involve entertainment as much as education. How can museums respond to current trends in the market and build their audiences without compromising their educational and scholarly purposes? Should the preservation and care of museum collections take a backseat to providing community programs that will attract visitors to the museum?

 The event will take place on Tuesday, March 18th, at 7 PM, in the Nursing Amphitheatre at Seton Hall University, located at 400 South Orange Avenue in South Orange, NJ.  Co-organized by the University’s MA Program in Museum Professions and Institute for Museum Ethics, it is sponsored by the Robert Lehman Foundation (Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History) and the Seton Hall University Center of Excellence, and free and open to the public.

 Come and meet the speakers before the event, from 5:30 onwards, in the Art Center Lounge, first floor. Refreshments will be served!!

For more information, please contact the Seton Hall MA Program in Museum Professions at (973) 761-7966 or museumgrad@shu.edu.